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Design, Analysis and Control of Cable-suspended Parallel Robots and Its Applications

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Cable-suspended parallel robots (CPR) are parallel manipulators in which the end-effectors are driven by cables instead of rigid links. The CPRs can be required not only for operations with greater flexibility, but also for large reachable workspace and high payload. The development of the cable-driven parallel manipulator is introduced and the latest advance in theory and applications of cable-driven parallel manipulator is presented.

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Zi, B., Qian, S. (2017). Introduction. In: Design, Analysis and Control of Cable-suspended Parallel Robots and Its Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1753-7_1

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