Closure to “Discussion of ‘Kinematics of a New High-Precision Three-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Manipulator’ ” (2008, ASME J. Mech. Des., 130, p. 035501)

Abstract

The manipulator discussed in the paper titled “Kinematics of a New High-Precision Three-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Manipulator” (1) is a three-degree-of-freedom simplification of a six-degree-of-freedom parallel minimanipulator, which is protected by a US patent (2). Between 1991 and 1995, late Professor Lung-Wen Tsai and I published several papers on various aspects of this six-degree-of-freedom minimanipulator (3-8). It is important to note that all of these papers (3-8) were published prior to each and every reference mentioned by the commentary of Carretero et al.