Cable-driven parallel mechanisms: Application to a locomotion interface

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 8 PART B, Issue , 2008, Pages 791-799

  Perreault, Simon ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MECHANISMS;

CABLE-DRIVEN PARALLEL MECHANISMS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; LOCOMOTION INTERFACES; MECHANICAL BASE; MECHANICAL INTERFERENCE; MOVING BODY; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; TENSILE FORCES; WRENCH-CLOSURE WORKSPACE;

CABLES;

EID: 44849090625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2965607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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