Main reference books on Parallel Manipulators

Dear all,

nowadays, new interesting monograms have been released on the subject of parallel manipulators.

Here are now the Main reference books: 

	Parallel Robots by J.-P. Merlet.
	Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms by X. Kong and C.M. Gosselin.
	Structural Synthesis of Parallel Robots by G. Gogu.
	Robot Analysis: The Mechanics of Serial and Parallel Manipulators by L.-W. Tsai.

For those of you having the chance to read french which is great language which opens the gate to a large number of great thinkers which forged our modern world, Jean-Pierre has kindly allowed free access to the second edition of his book in french:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Jean-Pierre.Merlet/livre97.pdf

I wish you a good reading.


Luc Rolland