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From: bouton@IASTATE.EDU (Chad E Bouton)
Subject: Re: Fast/Flexible Manipulators
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In article <2df5p5$f5s@info.epfl.ch>, Philippe Guglielmetti
<guglielmetti@elia.epfl.ch> writes:

> If you are interested in research, you have two choices: 
> - work on flexible robots, where a big competition exists to solve an 
>   almost uniquely academic problem. (Japanese people do not work in this
> area).
> - work on parallel manipulators, where very chellenging problems still
> exist
>   with almost no competition (most of the research in this area is done in
>   France, Japan and Switzerland) and a lot of possible new applications.
>   

1. I am not very familiar with parallel manipulators.  What are some
     of the challenging problems?

2. What are some good references?

3. What is the most prevalent type of manipulator being researched
    for space use?  Is parallel or flexible or other?

Philippe Guglielmetti - your host was unknown to my system. ??

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Chad E Bouton
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