Parallel Robots: Mechanics and Control

Parallel Robots: Mechanics and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-510

  Taghirad, Hamid D ^a  

^a NONE   (Iran)

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DOI: 10.1201/b16096     Document Type: Book

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