Design and implementation of NIMS3D, a 3-D cabled robot for actuated sensing applications

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 325-339

  Borgstrom, Per Henrik ^a   Borgstrom, Nils Peter ^a   Stealey, Michael J ^a   Jordan, Brett ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^b   Batalin, Maxim A ^a   Kaiser, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cabled robots; Environmental robots; Field robots; Parallel robots; Robotics in hazardous fields

Indexed keywords

CABLED ROBOTS; CALIBRATION METHODS; CONTROL METHODS; DEPLOYABILITY; END USERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ROBOTS; FIELD ROBOTS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; IN FIELDS; INSTALLATION PROCEDURES; PARABOLIC TRAJECTORIES; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TENSION DISTRIBUTIONS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 67349205611     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2012339     Document Type: Article

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