On the ability of a cable-driven robot to generate a prescribed set of wrenches

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Bouchard, Samuel ^a   Gosselin, Clément ^a   Moore, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABLE DRIVEN ROBOTS; CABLE ROBOT; CABLE-DRIVEN PARALLEL MECHANISMS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONVEX POLYTOPES; LAS VEGAS; NON-ITERATIVE; SPECIAL CLASS; UNDER-CONSTRAINED; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS; ZONOTOPES;

CABLES; MECHANISMS; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

TOOLS;

EID: 78651563640     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000558     Document Type: Article

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