Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Parallel Manipulators, towards New Applications

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Published01 April 2008

Doi10.5772/61

ISBN978-3-902613-40-0

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-5828-8

Copyright year2008

Number of pages508

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Control of Cable Robots for Construction Applications

By Alan Lytle, Fred Proctor and Kamel Saidi

3,842
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2. Dynamic Parameter Identification for Parallel Manipulators

By Vicente Mata, Nidal Farhat, Miguel Diaz-Rodriguez, Angel Valera and Alvaro Page

4,295
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3. Quantifying and Optimizing Failure Tolerance of a Class of Parallel Manipulators

By Chinmay S. Ukidve, John E. McInroy and Farhad Jafari

2,523
6. Wrench Capabilities of Planar Parallel Manipulators and their Effects Under Redundancy

By Flavio Firmani, Scott B. Nokleby, Ronald P. Podhorodeski and Alp Zibil

3,253
3
8,633
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11. Size-adapted Parallel and Hybrid Parallel Robots for Sensor Guided Micro Assembly

By Kerstin Schoettler, Annika Raatz and Juergen Hesselbach

3,474
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12. Dynamics of Hexapods with Fixed-Length Legs

By Rosario Sinatra and Fengfeng Xi

3,788
13. Cartesian Parallel Manipulator Modeling, Control and Simulation

By Ayssam Elkady, Galal Elkobrosy, Sarwat Hanna and Tarek Sobh

4,097
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14. Optimal Design of Parallel Kinematics Machines with 2 Degrees of Freedom

By Sergiu-Dan Stan, Vistrian Maties and Radu Balan

5,515
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16. A Reconfigurable Mobile Robots System Based on Parallel Mechanism

By Wei Wang, Houxiang Zhang, Guanghua Zong and Zhicheng Deng

2,467
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17. Hybrid Parallel Robot for the Assembling of ITER

By Huapeng Wu, Heikki Handroos and Pekka Pessi

2,915
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18. Architecture Design and Optimization of an On-the-Fly Reconfigurable Parallel Robot

By Allan Daniel Finistauri, Fengfeng (Jeff) Xi and Brian Petz

3,340
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19. A Novel 4-DOF Parallel Manipulator H4

By Jinbo Wu and Zhouping Yin

4,607
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20. Human Hand as a Parallel Manipulator

By Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky ad Mark L. Latash

2,665
21. Mobility of Spatial Parallel Manipulators

By Jing-Shan Zhao Fulei Chu and Zhi-Jing Feng

5,958
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