A GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM FOR THE COMPUTATION OF THE CONSTANT-ORIENTATION WORKSPACE OF 6-RUS PARALLEL MANIPULATORS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 7A, Issue , 2000, Pages 483-492

  Bonev, Llian A ^a   Gosselin, Clement M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC DESCRIPTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS; CONSTANT-ORIENTATION WORKSPACES; GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM; INTERSECTION POINTS; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; SURFACES INTERSECTIONS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 85027261258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/MECH-14106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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