Design of planar parallel robots with preloaded flexures for guaranteed backlash prevention

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

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

  Wei, Wei ^a   Simaan, Nabil ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FLEXIBLE JOINTS; FLEXURE JOINTS; MOVING PLATFORM; NONCOLLINEAR; PARALLEL ROBOTS; PASSIVE JOINTS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PLANAR PARALLEL ROBOTS; PRELOADS;

ALGORITHMS; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; MACHINE DESIGN; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78651577591     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000522     Document Type: Article

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