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Workspace and Singularity of Planar Parallel Linkage

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The layout of this chapter is that the theoretical foundation for the workspace of planar parallel mechanism under rotational actuations is firstly investigated, and then the algorithms to search the reachable and the dexterous workspaces of such mechanisms are discussed with application examples.

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    Jingshan Zhao, Zhijing Feng, Ning Ma & Fulei Chu

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Zhao, J., Feng, Z., Ma, N., Chu, F. (2014). Workspace and Singularity of Planar Parallel Linkage. In: Design of Special Planar Linkages. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38448-6_5

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