Conservative Error Space Estimation of 3-DoF Planar Parallel Mechanisms

Author(s):  
Jianzhong Ding ◽  
Shengnan Lu ◽  
Ting Da ◽  
Chunjie Wang ◽  
Gregory S. Chirikjian

This article develops a geometric method to estimate the error space of 3-DoF planar mechanisms with the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Enclosing (MVEE) approach. Both the joint clearance and input uncertainty are considered in this method. Three typical planar parallel mechanisms are used to demonstrate. Error spaces of their serial limbs are analyzed, respectively. Thereafter, limb-error-space-constrained mobility of manipulator, namely, the manipulator error space is analyzed. MVEE method has been applied to simplify the constraint modeling. A closed-form expression for the manipulator error space is derived. The volume of the manipulator error space is numerically estimated. The study approached in this paper develops a geometric error analysis method of parallel mechanisms with clear algebraic expressions. Moreover, far fewer forward kinematics computations have been performed in the proposed method than in the widely used interval analysis method. Although the estimated error space is larger than that in practice, due to the enclosing ellipses enlarge the regions of limb error space, the method has attractive advantage of high computational efficiency.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhong Ding ◽  
Shengnan Lyu ◽  
Ting Da ◽  
Chunjie Wang ◽  
Gregory S. Chirikjian

This paper develops a geometric method to estimate the error space of 3-DOF planar mechanisms with the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Enclosing (MVEE) approach. Both the joint clearances and actuator errors are considered in this method. Three typical planar parallel mechanisms are used to demonstrate. Error spaces of their serial limbs are analyzed. Thereafter, limb-error-space-constrained mobility of the manipulator, namely, the manipulator error space is analyzed. The MVEE method has been applied to simplify the constraint modeling. A closed-form expression for the manipulator error space is derived. The volume of the manipulator error space is numerically estimated. The approach in this paper is to develop a geometric error analysis method of parallel mechanisms with clear algebraic expressions. Moreover, no forward kinematics computations have been performed in the proposed method, in contrast to the widely used interval analysis method. Although the estimated error space is larger than the actual one, because the enclosing ellipses enlarge the regions of limb error space, the method has an attractive advantage of high computational efficiency.


Author(s):  
S El Hraiech ◽  
AH Chebbi ◽  
Z Affi ◽  
L Romdhane

This work deals with the estimation and the sensitivity analysis of the 3-UPU parallel robot error. Based on the Newton–Euler formalism, the robot dynamic model is given in a closed form. This model is validated by the software ADAMS. Using the interval analysis method, a new algorithm is proposed, which estimates the errors in the motion of the end-effector and the errors in the actuator forces as a function of the design parameters uncertainties. The obtained results show that the kinematic errors are minimal at the workspace center. Moreover, these errors increase as the platform moves along the vertical axis. It is also shown that kinematic errors in the actuator joints are the most influential parameters on the manipulator accuracy. Therefore, using actuators with a higher accuracy can highly reduce the errors in motion of the platform.


2020 ◽  
Vol 475 ◽  
pp. 115258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai B. Huang ◽  
Jiu H. Wu ◽  
Xiao R. Huang ◽  
Wei P. Ding ◽  
Ming L. Yang

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Si J. Zhu ◽  
Zhen Huang ◽  
Hua F. Ding

This paper proposes a novel kinematic analysis method for a class of lower-mobility mechanisms whose degree-of-freedom (DoF) equal the number of single-DoF kinematic pairs in each kinematic limb if all multi-DoF kinematic pairs are substituted by the single one. For such an N-DoF (N<6) mechanism, this method can build a square (N×N) Jacobian matrix and cubic (N×N×N) Hessian matrix. The formulas in this method for different parallel mechanisms have unified forms and consequently the method is convenient for programming. The more complicated the mechanism is (for instance, the mechanism has more kinematic limbs or pairs), the more effective the method is. In the rear part of the paper, mechanisms 5-DoF 3-R(CRR) and 5-DoF 3-(RRR)(RR) are analyzed as examples.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Wang ◽  
Weizhong Guo ◽  
Youcheng Han

Abstract This paper proposes a novel performance index, which is called static actuation force sensitivity (SAFS), to investigate the response of the actuation forces when the amplitude of the suffered load of the end-effector has a change. Smaller SAFS can protect the actuations, and the load is mainly suffered by the structural constraints. This work starts with the construction of the unified forward Jacobian matrix of both serial and parallel mechanisms by screw theory. Then, with the forward Jacobian matrix, the inverse static equation is established. SAFS is thus introduced by the “partial differential” operation on the inverse static equation. SAFS is only related to the position of the whole mechanism and the direction of the suffered load, but not related to the detailed value of the amplitude of the load and the detailed value of the actuation forces; thus, SAFS can reveal the essence of static force capacities of the mechanisms. The example mechanism (namely, the 3revolute-prismatic-spherical (RPS) parallel mechanism) is used to illustrate the distribution of SAFS both over the workspace and at a certain pose. The analysis method of SAFS and the proposed index are expected to be applied to the pose optimization in the motion planning of the mechanisms to protect the actuations.


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