Everything about Serial cable

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Serial cableA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Modeling and analysis of a cable-driven serial-parallel manipulatorInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Design and Analysis of a High-Payload Manipulator Based on a Cable-Driven Serial-Parallel MechanismCited 38 times
5. Go sideways: RS-232A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Null modemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Design and Analysis of a High-Payload Manipulator Based on a Cable-Driven Serial-Parallel Mechanism

  Fei Liu, Wenfu Xu, Hailin Huang · 2019 · Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics · 38 citations

• Design and implementation of a 7-DOF cable-driven serial spray-painting robot with motion-decoupling mechanisms

  Feng Xu, Bin Zi, Zhaoyi Yu · 2024 · Mechanism and Machine Theory · 34 citations

• Cable-direct-driven-robot (CDDR) with a 3-link passive serial support

  Lorenzo Pigani, Paolo Gallina · 2014 · Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 17 citations

• Dynamic Modeling and Error Analysis of a Cable-Linkage Serial-Parallel Palletizing Robot

  Huihui Sun, Yujie Zhang, Bin Xie · 2021 · IEEE Access · 17 citations

• Hybrid Tension-Position Control of Cable-Driven Serial Manipulator to Improve Accuracy and Avoid Cable Slack and Breakage

  Bin Liang, Wenshuo Li, Boyang Lin · 2025 · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 12 citations

• Robust Adaptive Control of Fully Constrained Cable-Driven Serial Manipulator with Multi-Segment Cables Using Cable Tension Sensor Measurements

  Ya’nan Lou, Haoyu Lin, Pengkun Quan · 2021 · Sensors · 9 citations

• Stiffness Modulation of a Cable-Driven Serial-Chain Manipulator Via Cable Routing Alteration

  N. S. S. Sanjeevi, Vineet Vashista · 2022 · Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics · 8 citations

• Collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectory of a hybrid cable–serial robot with two passive links

  Mourad Ismail, Samir Lahouar, Lotfi Romdhane · 2016 · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Modeling and analysis of a cable-driven serial-parallel manipulator

  Fei Liu, Zhendong Song, Jinping Ma · 2023 · Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science · 7 citations

• A novel cable-driven serial robot based on flexible joints and tensegrity structures

  Da Song, Haochen Wang, Ming Lu · 2025 · Robotica · 2 citations

• Development and Optimization of a Noncircular Pulley for Motion Decoupling in Cable-Driven Serial Robots

  Jinsai Cheng, Tao Shen · 2024 · Journal of Mechanical Design · 2 citations

• Redundancy resolution of a variable base frame of a 3-DoF cable-driven serial chain by using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy controller

  Vahid Bahrami, Ahmad Kalhor, Mehdi Tale Masouleh · 2025 · Journal of the Franklin Institute · 2 citations

• Real-Time Multi-Contact Estimation for Cable-Driven Serial Manipulator

  Hongyang Cheng, Junbo Tan, Yanan Li · 2025 · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Complex Serial Drama and Multiplatform TelevisionTrisha Dunleavy · 2017
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Practical Electronics for InventorsPaul Scherz · 2000
• Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot SystemsDejan Milutinović · 2013
• 📕Cable guysAmanda D. Lotz · 2014
• 📕107-1 Hearing: Campaign Finace Reform: Proposals Impacting Broadcasters Cable Operators and Satellite Providers, Serial No. 107-42, June 20, 2001 · 2001
• Practical electronics for inventorsPaul Scherz · 2013

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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