The 3-RRS wrist: A new, very simple and not overconstrained spherical parallel manipulator

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 5 B, Issue , 2002, Pages 1193-1199

  Di Gregorio, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kinematic analysis; Parallel manipulators; Wrists

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 85088337923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2002/mech-34344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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