Workspace analysis of fully restrained cable-driven manipulators

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 901-912

  Pham, Cong Bang ^a   Yeo, Song Huat ^b   Yang, Guilin ^c   Chen, I Ming ^b  

^a HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cable driven manipulator; Feasible wrench workspace; Tension conditions; Tension factor

Indexed keywords

CABLE-DRIVEN MANIPULATOR; CABLE-DRIVEN MANIPULATORS; CABLE-DRIVEN PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; DIMENSION-REDUCTION; DRIVING CABLES; FEASIBLE-WRENCH WORKSPACE; LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; MOVING PLATFORM; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; POSITIVE TENSIONS; REDUNDANT CABLES; RIGID-LINK MANIPULATORS; TENSION CONDITIONS; TENSION DISTRIBUTION; TENSION FACTOR; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CABLES; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TOOLS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 68749107995     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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