Parallel Robots: Open Problems

In the past recent years parallel robots have drawn a lot of interest in the robotics community and in many applicative domains: medical, machine-tools, pick-and-place,etc, where the advantages (e.g. accuracy, rigidity) of closed-loop chains may be useful. The purpose of this paper is to identify important open theoretical problems in this field.

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