Workspace analysis of a three dof cable-driven mechanism

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Alikhani, Alireza ^a   Behzadipour, Saeed ^b   Ali Sadough Vanini, S ^a   Alasty, Aria ^c  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cable driven mechanism; Large scale manipulation; Tensionability

Indexed keywords

CABLE-DRIVEN MECHANISMS; CONVEX POLYHEDRONS; EXTERNAL LOADING; GEOMETRICAL SHAPES; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; MOVING PLATFORM; MULTI-BODY; PARALLEL ROBOTS; ROTATIONAL MOTION; TENSILE FORCES; THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS; WORKSPACE BOUNDARIES;

ROBOTS;

CABLES;

EID: 78649315517     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3204255     Document Type: Article

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