Using redundancy to optimize manipulability of Stewart platforms

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-479

  Ukidve, Chinmay S ^a   McInroy, John E ^a   Jafari, Farhad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Gough Stewart platforms (GSPs); Isotropy; Kinematic design; Parallel manipulators

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749108034     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.2001185     Document Type: Article

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