Workspace analysis for planar and spatial redundant cable robots

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Ghasemi, Ali ^a   Eghtesad, Mohammad ^a   Farid, Mehrdad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bland's pivot rule; Cable robot; Reduced row echelon form; Redundancy; Tension upper limit; Workspace

Indexed keywords

CABLE ROBOT; COMPUTATION TIME; PIVOT RULE; REDUNDANT CABLES; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL CABLE; SYSTEM MATRICES; UPPER LIMITS; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; ROBOTS;

CABLES;

EID: 78651554731     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3211026     Document Type: Article

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