Assembly mode changing in parallel mechanisms

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-772

  Bamberger, Hagay ^a,b   Wolf, Alon ^b   Shoham, Moshe ^b  

^a RAFAEL   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bearings (mechanical); Parallel machines; Polynomials; Robot kinematics; Singular systems; Tolerance analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; KINEMATICS;

ASSEMBLY MODES; BEARINGS (MECHANICAL); DIRECT KINEMATIC SINGULARITY; JOINT SPACE; MICRO-MECHANISMS; PARALLEL MACHINES; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; POLYNOMIALS; ROBOT KINEMATICS; SINGULAR SYSTEMS; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 50649094224     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.926863     Document Type: Article

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