+
+
+- **Velocity isotropy**: A manipulator is isotropic with respect to the velocity, if it can perform the same velocity along all the directions.
+- **Force isotropy**: A manipulator is isotropic with respect to the force, if it can exert the same force along all the directions.
+- **Stiffness isotropy**: A manipulator is isotropic with respect to the stiffness, if the deflection of the TCP produced by a force applied to it is always in the direction of the force and its magnitude is independent of the force direction.
+- **Mass isotropy**: A manipulator is isotropic with respect to the equivalent gripper mass, if the acceleration of the TCP produced by a force applied to it is always in the direction of the force and its magnitude is independent of the force direction.
+
+
+
+A 6-DoF spatial manipulator is isotropic with respect to velocity if:
+
+\begin{equation}
+J^T J = \diag(j\_{xx}, j\_{yy}, j\_{zz}, j\_{\alpha\alpha}, j\_{\beta\beta}, j\_{\gamma\gamma}) \quad \text{with} \quad j\_{xx}=j\_{yy}=j\_{zz} \quad \text{and} \quad j\_{\alpha\alpha}=j\_{\beta\beta}=j\_{\gamma\gamma}
+\end{equation}
+
+The same condition holds for the force isotropy.
+
+Assuming that the actuators are locked and that they are the only sources of compliance, the force \\(F\_s\\) to be applied to the end effector to produce a motion \\(dS\\) is:
+
+\begin{equation}
+F\_s = \underbrace{J^T K\_q J}\_{K\_s} dS \quad K\_q = \diag(\dots,k\_i,\dots)
+\end{equation}
+
+where \\(k\_i\\) is the stiffness of the ith actuator.
+A general 6-DoF manipulator is **fully isotropic** with respect to stiffness if:
+
+\begin{equation}
+K\_s = \diag(k\_{xx}, k\_{yy}, k\_{zz}, k\_{\alpha\alpha}, k\_{\beta\beta}, k\_{\gamma\gamma}) \quad \text{with} \quad k\_{xx}=k\_{yy}=k\_{zz}=k\_x \quad \text{and} \quad k\_{\alpha\alpha}=k\_{\beta\beta}=k\_{\gamma\gamma}=k\_\phi
+\end{equation}
+
+In this case, it results:
+
+\begin{equation}
+F = k\_x dX, \quad T = k\_\phi d\phi
+\end{equation}
+
+where \\(k\_x\\) is the translation stiffness and \\(k\_\phi\\) is the rotation stiffness.
+This means that:
+
+- forces \\(F\\) applied to the TCP do not produce rotations \\(d\phi\\) but only translations \\(dX\\)
+- the translation is proportional to the force and parallel to it regardless to the force direction
+- torques \\(T\\) applied to the TCP do not produce translations \\(dx\\) but only rotations \\(d\phi\\)
+- the rotation is proportional to the torque and occurs around the same axis as the applied torque
+
+In this special case in which all the actuators are identical to each other, and therefore have the same stiffness \\(k\\), we have \\(K\_s = kJ^TJ\\) and the condition number of the matrix \\(J^TJ\\) can be investigated instead of that of \\(J^T K\_q J\\).
+In this case the isotropy for velocity, force and stiffness are achieve simultaneously.
+
+A manipulator is **partially isotropic** if:
+
+\begin{equation}
+k\_{xx} = k\_{yy} \neq k\_{zz} \quad \text{and/or} \quad k\_{\alpha\alpha} = k\_{\beta\beta} \neq k\_{\gamma\gamma}
+\end{equation}
+
+
+### Point of isotropy {#point-of-isotropy}
+
+A parallel manipulator as a "point of isotropy" if it exists at least one point of its end effector for which the isotropy condition is achieved.
+
+Then conditions are given to find an isotropic TCP.
+
+
+### Application to the Stewart platform {#application-to-the-stewart-platform}
+
+Conditions can be applied to the Stewart platform and isotropy points can be found.
+
+
+## ([Tong et al. 2011](#org0e02b02)) {#tong-et-al-dot-2011--org0e02b02}
+
+A parallel manipulator consists of a movable platform, a fixed base, and six struts, each with a linear actuator.
+The struts are partitioned into two groups: the first group with strut 1,3,5 and the second group with strut 2,4,6.
+The attached points of each strut are uniformly spaced on the circumferences of two circles on the movable platform and the fixed base, respectively.
+The three struts in each group are rotational symmetry and repeat every 120 deg.
+This parallel manipulator with this kind of configurations are defined as generalized symmetric Gough-Stewart parallel manipulators (GSGSPMs).
+
+