Singularity-free fully-isotropic translational parallel manipulators

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 5 B, Issue , 2002, Pages 1041-1050

  Carricato, Marco ^a   Parenti Castelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constraint Singularities; Direct Kinematics Singularities; Isotropy; Parallel Mechanisms; Translational Mechanisms

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANISMS;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 85086421471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2002/mech-34323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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