**Author details**

Burak Inner<sup>1</sup> and Serdar Küçük<sup>2</sup> \*

1 Engineering Faculty, Department of Computer Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

2 Technology Faculty, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

\*Address all correspondence to: skucuk@kocaeli.edu.tr

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*A Dexterous Workspace Optimization for Ten Different Types of General Stewart-Gough… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108185*

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