Optimal design of a 4-DOF parallel manipulator: From academia to industry

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-224

  Pierrot, François ^a   Nabat, Vincent ^b,c   Company, Olivier ^a   Krut, Sébastien ^a   Poignet, Philippe ^a  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^c Adept Company Annecy   (France)

Author keywords

Articulated traveling plate; Dynamic model; Parallel robot; Pick and place; Sch enflies motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATED TRAVELING PLATE; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; CYCLE TIME; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPES; EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; FOUR LEGS; GEAR RATIOS; HIGH ACCELERATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; LINK LENGTHS; MANIPULATOR PROTOTYPES; MODIFIED DESIGNS; NEW DESIGNS; OPTIMAL DESIGNS; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PARALLEL ROBOT; PICK AND PLACE;

DYNAMIC MODELS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 67349240874     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.2011412     Document Type: Article

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