Implementation and assessment of a virtual laboratory of parallel robots developed for engineering students

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 92-98

  Gil, Arturo ^a   Peidró, Adrián ^a   Reinoso, Óscar ^a   Marín, José María ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Education; parallel robots; robot kinematics; simulation; software tools; virtual laboratories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DISTANCE EDUCATION; EDUCATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INVERSE KINEMATICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; STUDENTS; TOOLS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATE; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; PARALLEL ROBOTS; PARALLEL STRUCTURES; PLANNING APPLICATIONS; ROBOT KINEMATICS; SIMULATION; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES;

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EID: 84900818959     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2013.2276951     Document Type: Article

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