MOTION CONTINUITY AND BRANCH IDENTIFICATION OF TWO-DOF SEVEN-BAR PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATORS AND LINKAGES

Jun Wang, Kwun-Lon Ting, Yajing Gong, and Hongxiu He

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