THE CONFIGURATION SPACE OF A PARALLEL POLYGONAL MECHANISM

Nir Shvalb (Israel), Moshe Shoham (Israel) and David Blanc (Israel)

Received December 18, 2007; Revised February 8, 2009

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Keywords and phrases: configuration space, work space, robotics, (planar) mechanism.