Alternative Methods for Direct Kinematic Analysis of a Parallel Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation

Author(s):  
Erick D. Flores-Salazar ◽  
Manuel Arias-Montiel ◽  
Esther Lugo-González ◽  
Jaime Gallardo-Alvarado ◽  
Ricardo Tapia-Herrera
2013 ◽  
Vol 446-447 ◽  
pp. 1279-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nazrin Shah Bin Shahrol Aman ◽  
Shafriza Nisha Bin Basah

Ankle injury is one of the most common injuries in sports or domestic related accidents. This injury can usually be treated via a number of rehabilitation exercises. However, currently rehabilitation of ankle injury directly depends of physiotherapy session administered by experts; which is tedious and expensive in nature. In this paper, we proposed a concept based on parallel mechanism to assist patients undergoing ankle rehabilitation procedures. This is due to a number of advantages of parallel mechanism as compared to serial mechanism higher payload-to-weight ratio, structure rigidity, accuracy and relatively simple solution. We reported our design process; including the concept generation and selection according to a number of relevant design parameters. After which, followed by embodiment design involving kinematic analysis of the proposed mechanism. The findings, in terms of conceptual design and kinematic analysis should be able to provide an insight for ankle rehabilitation based on suitable parallel mechanism.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Khakpour ◽  
Lionel Birglen ◽  
Souheil-Antoine Tahan

In this paper, a new three degrees of freedom (DOF) differentially actuated cable parallel robot is proposed. This mechanism is driven by a prismatic actuator and three cable differentials. Through this design, the idea of using differentials in the structure of a spatial cable robot is investigated. Considering their particular properties, the kinematic analysis of the robot is presented. Then, two indices are defined to evaluate the workspaces of the robot. Using these indices, the robot is subsequently optimized. Finally, the performance of the optimized differentially driven robot is compared with fully actuated mechanisms. The results show that through a proper design methodology, the robot can have a larger workspace and better performance using differentials than the fully driven cable robots using the same number of actuators.


Author(s):  
DU Hui ◽  
GAO Feng ◽  
PAN Yang

A novel 3-UP3R parallel mechanism with six degree of freedoms is proposed in this paper. One most important advantage of this mechanism is that the three translational and three rotational motions are partially decoupled: the end-effector position is only determined by three inputs, while the rotational angles are relative to all six inputs. The design methodology via GF set theory is brought out, using which the limb type can be determined. The mobility of the end-effector is analyzed. After that, the kinematic and velocity models are formulated. Then, workspace is studied, and since the robot is partially decoupled, the reachable workspace is also the dexterous workspace. In the end, both local and global performances are discussed using conditioning indexes. The experiment of real prototype shows that this mechanism works well and may be applied in many fields.


Author(s):  
Calin Vaida ◽  
Doina Pisla ◽  
Josef Schadlbauer ◽  
Manfred Husty ◽  
Nicolae Plitea

2014 ◽  
Vol 607 ◽  
pp. 759-763
Author(s):  
Xiao Bo Liu ◽  
Xiao Dong Yuan ◽  
Xiao Feng Wei ◽  
Wei Ni

This paper deals with the design and analysis of a novel and simple two-translation and one-rotation (3 degrees of freedom, 3-dof) mechanism for alignment. Firstly, degree of freedom of the parallel robot is solved based on the theory of screw. Secondly considering the demand of motion control, we have conducted the analysis on the 3-dof parallel robot, which includes inverse displacement, forward displacement, and simulation based on SolidWorks Motion. The simulation results indicate that the novel 3-dof robot is suitable for performing the required operations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Blanco ◽  
Fabio A. Gómez ◽  
Víctor H. Olivares ◽  
Arturo Abundez ◽  
Jorge Colín

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Lilge ◽  
Kathrin Nuelle ◽  
Georg Boettcher ◽  
Svenja Spindeldreier ◽  
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Abstract The use of continuous and flexible structures instead of rigid links and discrete joints is a growing field of robotics research. Recent work focuses on the inclusion of continuous segments in parallel robots to benefit from their structural advantages, such as a high dexterity and compliance. While some applications and designs of these novel parallel continuum robots have been presented, the field remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, an exact quantification of the kinematic advantages and disadvantages when using continuous structures in parallel robots is yet to be performed. In this paper, planar parallel robot designs using tendon actuated continuum robots instead of rigid links and discrete joints are proposed. Using the well-known 3-RRR manipulator as a reference design, two parallel continuum robots are derived. Inverse and differential kinematics of these designs are modeled using constant curvature assumptions, which can be adapted for other actuation mechanisms than tendons. Their kinematic performances are compared to the conventional parallel robot counterpart. On the basis of this comparison, the advantages and disadvantages of using continuous structures in parallel robots are quantified and analyzed. Results show that parallel continuum robots can be kinematic equivalent and exhibit similar kinematic performances in comparison to conventional parallel robots depending on the chosen design.


2011 ◽  
Vol 308-310 ◽  
pp. 2037-2041
Author(s):  
Zhi Xin Shi ◽  
Mei Yan Ye

Based on the control decoupled principle and approach of Position and Orientation Characteristic (in short, POC) set, a novel decoupled parallel robot with 3-Translation and 2-Rotation (in short, 3T2R) outputs has been presented in the paper. And the topological structure of this new mechanism is fully decoupled, which have the advantages of easily control, simple kinematic analysis, and so on. Then the structure and displacement analysis of this novel parallel robot have been accomplished. The research provides theoretical basis for design and practical applicability of this novel parallel robot.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Mazare ◽  
Mostafa Taghizadeh ◽  
M. Rasool Najafi

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