Kinematic design of an anthropomimetic 7-DOF cable-driven robotic arm

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-60

  Yang, Guilin ^a   Mustafa, Shabbir Kurbanhusen ^a   Yeo, Song Huat ^b   Lin, Wei ^a   Lim, Wen Bin ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

anthropomimetic design; cabledriven mechanism; design optimization; kinematic analysis; robotic arm

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651475008     PISSN: 20950233     EISSN: 20950241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11465-011-0205-3     Document Type: Article

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