Integrated Mechanism Design and Control of the Hybrid-Driven Based Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots

Author(s):  
Bin Zi ◽  
Sen Qian
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2040037
Author(s):  
YAN-LIN WANG ◽  
KE-YI WANG ◽  
ZI-XING ZHANG ◽  
LIANG-LIANG CHEN ◽  
ZONG-JUN MO

Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPR) have been well used in the rehabilitation field. However, the cables can provide the tension in a single direction, there is a pseudo-drag phenomenon of the cables in the CDPR, which will have a great impact on the safety of patients. Therefore, the novelty of this work is that a bionic muscle cable is used to replace the ordinary cable in the CDPR, which can solve the pseudo-drag phenomenon of the cables in the CDPR and improve the safety performance of the rehabilitation robot. The cable-driven lower limb rehabilitation robot with bionic muscle cables is called as the bionic muscle cable-driven lower limb rehabilitation robot (BMCDLR). The motion planning of the rigid branch chain of the BMCDLR is studied, and the dynamics and system stiffness of the BMCDLR are analyzed based on the man–machine model in this paper. The influence of the parameters of the elastic elements in the bionic muscle cables on the mechanical characteristics of the BMCDLR system was analyzed by using simulation experiments. The research results can provide a reference basis for research on the safety evaluation and control methods of the BMCDLR system.


2010 ◽  
Vol 166-167 ◽  
pp. 457-462
Author(s):  
Dan Verdes ◽  
Radu Balan ◽  
Máthé Koppány

Parallel robots find many applications in human-systems interaction, medical robots, rehabilitation, exoskeletons, to name a few. These applications are characterized by many imperatives, with robust precision and dynamic workspace computation as the two ultimate ones. This paper presents kinematic analysis, workspace, design and control to 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) parallel robots. Parallel robots have received considerable attention from both researchers and manufacturers over the past years because of their potential for high stiffness, low inertia and high speed capability. Therefore, the 3 DOF translation parallel robots provide high potential and good prospects for their practical implementation in human-systems interaction.


2013 ◽  
pp. 313-367
Author(s):  
Moharam Habibnejad Korayem ◽  
Soleiman Manteghi ◽  
Hami Tourajizadeh
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Robotica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Li

Due to the demands from the robotic industry, robot structures have evolved from serial to parallel. The control of parallel robots for high performance and high speed tasks has always been a challenge to control engineers. Following traditional control engineering approaches, it is possible to design advanced algorithms for parallel robot control. These approaches, however, may encounter problems such as heavy computational load and modeling errors, to name it a few. To avoid heavy computation, simplified dynamic models can be obtained by applying approximation techniques, nevertheless, performance accuracy will suffer due to modeling errors. This paper suggests applying an integrated design and control approach, i.e., the Design For Control (DFC) approach, to handle this problem. The underlying idea of the DFC approach can be illustrated as follows: Intuitively, a simple control algorithm can control a structure with a simple dynamic model quite well. Therefore, no matter how sophisticate a desired motion task is, if the mechanical structure is designed such that it results in a simple dynamic model, then, to design a controller for this system will not be a difficult issue. As such, complicated control design can be avoided, on-line computation load can be reduced and better control performance can be achieved. Through out the discussion in the paper, a 2 DOF parallel robot is redesigned based on the DFC concept in order to obtain a simpler dynamic model based on a mass-balancing method. Then a simple PD controller can drive the robot to achieve accurate point-to-point tracking tasks. Theoretical analysis has proven that the simple PD control can guarantee a stable system. Experimental results have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of this integrated design and control approach.


Author(s):  
A. Zubizarreta ◽  
E. Portillo ◽  
I. Cabanes ◽  
M. Marcos ◽  
Ch. Pinto

Due to their high performance when executing high-speed and accurate tasks, parallel robots have became the focus of many researchers and companies. However, exploiting the full potential of these robots requires a correct mechatronic design, in which the designed mechanism has to be controlled by a suitable control law in order to achieve the maximum performance. In this paper a novel Validation and Control Environment (VALIDBOT) is proposed as a support for the control design and experimental testing stages of these robots. The proposed open and flexible environment is designed to meet rapid prototyping requirements, offering a high level framework for both students and researchers. The capabilities of the environment are illustrated with an application case based on a 5R parallel robot prototype in which a modified CTC controller is tested.


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