“…The research works presented in [3,[7][8][9][10][11] focus on elastic serial robotic manipulators. Other works [12][13][14][15][16] concern closed loop multi-body systems to study parallel robots with elastic links in which, five main methods are used to model elastic links including: (1) Lumped parameter method [17], (2) Finite difference method [18], (3) Method of expansion to assumed mode functions [7,10,12,13,16,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25], (4) Finite element method [9,11,14,26,27], (5) Method of multibody systems [8]. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages, which method to use depends on forte and supporting tools.…”