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..., and it can also be useful for other kinds of redundantly actuated PKMs. machine tools numerical control redundant manipulators servomechanisms homing redundantly actuated parallel kinematic machine assistant homing strategy Homing is one of the most important operations for numerical...

... for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received Aug. 2003; rev. Feb. 2004. Associate Editor: A. A. Shabana. 01 Aug 2003 01 Feb 2004 28 10 2004 servomechanisms vibration control vibrations damping dynamic response Due to the inherent flexibility...

... . Manuscript received March 2003; revised October 2003. Associate Editor: G. R. Pennock. 01 March 2003 01 October 2003 12 08 2004 pneumatic actuators servomechanisms position control internal friction Servo pneumatic linear positioning systems are suited for high-speed...

.... Associate Technical Editor: C. M. Gosselin. 01 Jan 1999 industrial manipulators manipulator kinematics sensors servomechanisms design engineering Recently many efforts have been devoted to the kinematic analysis of fully-parallel manipulators (FPMs). Among these the class of fully...