A novel spherical parallel manipulator: Forward position problem, singularity analysis, and isotropy design

Robotica

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 663-676

  Enferadi, Javad ^a   Tootoonchi, Alireza Akbarzadeh ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bezout's elimination method; Forward position problem; Isotropy design; Singularity analysis; Spherical parallel manipulator

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION ANALYSIS; BEZOUT'S ELIMINATION METHOD; ELIMINATION METHOD; GLOBAL CONDITIONING; ISOTROPIC DESIGN; ISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; LARGE WORKSPACE; REAL SOLUTIONS; SINGULARITY ANALYSIS; SPHERICAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

DESIGN; SPHERES;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 70450172283     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574708005031     Document Type: Article

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