XY-Theta positioning table with parallel kinematics and unlimited theta rotation

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 3113-3117

  Bonev, Ilian A ^a   Yu, Alexander ^b   Zsombor Murray, Paul ^b  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICS; ROBOTICS; ROTATION;

DEXTROUS WORKSPACE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; KINEMATIC ACCURACY; MOBILE PLATFORMS; PARALLEL KINEMATICS; PARALLEL ROBOTS; POSITIONING TABLES; ROTARY TABLES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 53849116783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2006.296113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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