Mobility change in two types of metamorphic parallel mechanisms

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Gan, Dongming ^a,b   Dai, Jian S ^b   Liao, Qizheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metamorphic; Mobility; Parallel mechanism; Reciprocal screws

Indexed keywords

LOCAL MOBILITY; METAMORPHIC; METAMORPHIC PROCESS; MOBILITY ANALYSIS; MOBILITY CHANGES; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; PURE-ROTATION; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

SCREWS; STRUTS; TOPOLOGY;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 77955240909     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3211023     Document Type: Article

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