Modeling and Analysis of a 2-DOF Spherical Parallel Manipulator

Xuechao Duan1,2, Yongzhi Yang3, Bi Cheng4

  • 1Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structure Design, Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126, China. xchduan@xidian.edu.cn.

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|September 21, 2016
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