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The manipulator architecture of a robot is composed of an arm mostly for movements of translation, a wrist for movement of orientation, and an end-effector for interaction with the environment and/or external objects, as shown in Fig. 3.1

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Ceccarelli, M. (2004). Fundamentals of the mechanics of robots. In: Fundamentals of Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation. International Series on Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2110-7_3

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