Parallel robotic machine tools

Parallel Robotic Machine Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-219

  Zhang, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1117-9     Document Type: Book

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