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Motion/force transmission indices of parallel manipulators

  • Xinjun LIU ,
  • Chao WU ,
  • Fugui XIE
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  • The State Key Laboratory of Tribology & Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received date: 27 Dec 2010

Accepted date: 28 Dec 2010

Published date: 05 Mar 2011

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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Xinjun LIU , Chao WU , Fugui XIE . Motion/force transmission indices of parallel manipulators[J]. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2011 , 6(1) : 89 -91 . DOI: 10.1007/s11465-011-0215-1

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