Simulation and design tool for performance analysis of planar parallel manipulators

SIMULATION

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 542-556

  Kucuk, Serdar ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

computer aided design; computer aided performance analysis; kinematics; planar parallel manipulators; simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DESIGN TOOL; END-EFFECTOR COORDINATES; EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES; FORWARD AND INVERSE KINEMATICS; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; LINK LENGTH; MOVING PLATFORM; PARALLEL ROBOT MANIPULATOR; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; SIDE LENGTH; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INVERSE KINEMATICS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; KINEMATICS;

MATLAB;

EID: 84860139424     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: 17413133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549711414157     Document Type: Article

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