A study of workspace and singularity characteristics for design of 3-DOF planar parallel robots

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 5-8, 2010, Pages 789-797

  Huang, Ming Z ^a   Thebert, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel robots; Singularity analysis; Workspace characteristics

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; KINEMATIC STRUCTURES; LINK LENGTH; PARALLEL ROBOTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PLANAR PARALLEL ROBOTS; SERIAL CHAINS; SINGULARITY ANALYSIS; WORKSPACE CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; VISUALIZATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78650173421     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-010-2632-4     Document Type: Article

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