Static balancing of spatial and planar parallel manipulators with prismatic actuators

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1A-1998, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Leblond, Marc ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; MECHANISMS;

DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; SPATIAL PARALLEL MANIPULATOR; THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS;

BALANCING;

EID: 85100929750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC98/MECH-5963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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