Configuration Synthesis for Fully Restrained 7-Cable-Driven Manipulators

Cable distribution plays a vital role in Cable Driven Parallel Manipulators (CDPMs) regarding tension and workspace quality, especially in fully restrained CDPMs. This paper focuses on three typical configurations of fully restrained CDPMs with 7 cables in order to introduce an approach for configur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaoqiang Tang, Lewei Tang, Jinsong Wang, Dengfeng Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-10-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/52147