DETERMINING SINGULARITIES OF SOME 3-DOF PARALLEL MANIPULATORS WITH LINEAR ACTIVE LEGS BY 3X3 TRANSLATIONAL/3X3 ROTATIONAL JACOBIAN MATRICES

Yi Lu, Shu-Yan Li, and Yan Shi

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