A reconfigurable robot with lockable cylindrical joints

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 785-797

  Aghili, Farhad ^a   Parsa, Kourosh ^a,b  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b ESAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained robot; Parallel manipulator; Reconfigurable robots; Redundant manipulator; Space manipulator

Indexed keywords

AGILE ROBOTS; BRAKE MECHANISM; CLOSED KINEMATIC CHAINS; CONSTRAINED ROBOT; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; LINK LENGTH; MODULAR JOINTS; PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; PASSIVE JOINTS; RECALIBRATIONS; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SPACE MANIPULATOR; TWIST ANGLES;

ALGORITHMS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; KINEMATICS; MODULAR ROBOTS; OBSERVABILITY; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69249206897     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2017130     Document Type: Article

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