Interval-analysis-based determination of the wrench-feasible workspace of parallel cable-driven robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Gouttefarde, Marc ^a   Daney, David ^b   Merlet, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Cable driven robots; interval analysis; workspace determination; wrench feasibility

Indexed keywords

BRANCH-AND-PRUNE ALGORITHMS; CABLE DRIVEN ROBOTS; CABLE TENSION; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE SET; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; INTERVAL ANALYSIS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PARALLEL ROBOTS; SIZE AND SHAPE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS; WORKSPACE DETERMINATION; WRENCH FEASIBILITY; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; TOOLS;

CABLES;

EID: 79951579532     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2090064     Document Type: Article

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