scholarly journals A Cable-Driven Parallel Robot With an Embedded Tilt-Roll Wrist

Author(s):  
Saman Lessanibahri ◽  
Philippe Cardou ◽  
Stéphane Caro

Abstract This paper addresses the optimum design, configuration and workspace analysis of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot with an embedded tilt-roll wrist. The manipulator is a hybrid robot consisting in an under-constrained moving-platform accommodating a tilt-roll wrist. The embedded wrist provides large amplitudes of tilt and roll rotations and a large translational workspace obtained by the moving-platform. This manipulator is suitable for tasks requiring large rotation and translation workspaces like tomography scanning, camera-orienting devices and visual surveillance. The moving-platform is an eight-degree-of-freedom articulated mechanism with large translational and rotational workspaces and it is suspended from a fixed frame by six cables. The manipulator employs two bi-actuated cables, i.e., cable loops to transmit the power from motors fixed on the ground to the tilt-roll wrist. Therefore, the manipulator achieves better dynamic performances due to a lower inertia of its moving-platform.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saman Lessanibahri ◽  
Philippe Cardou ◽  
Stéphane Caro

Abstract This paper addresses the optimum design, configuration, and workspace analysis of a cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) with an embedded tilt-roll wrist. The manipulator consists in a tilt-roll wrist mounted on the moving platform of a suspended CDPR. The embedded wrist provides large amplitudes of tilt and roll rotations and a large translational workspace obtained by the CDPR. This manipulator is suitable for tasks requiring large rotation and translation workspaces such as tomography scanning, camera-orienting devices, and visual surveillance. The moving-platform is an eight-degree-of-freedom articulated mechanism with large translational and rotational workspaces, and it is suspended from a fixed frame by six cables. The manipulator employs two bi-actuated cables, i.e., cable-loops to transmit the power from motors fixed on the ground to the tilt-roll wrist. Therefore, the manipulator achieves better dynamic performances due to a lower inertia of its moving-platform.


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 922-935
Author(s):  
HongJun San ◽  
JunSong Lei ◽  
JiuPeng Chen ◽  
ZhengMing Xiao ◽  
JunJie Zhao

In this paper, a 3-DOF translational parallel mechanism with parallelogram linkage was studied. According to the space vector relation between the moving platform and the fixed base, the direct and inverse position solutions of this mechanism was deduced through analytical method. In addition, the error of the algorithm was analyzed, and the algorithm had turned out to be effective and to have the satisfactory computational precision. On the above basis, the workspace of this mechanism was found through graphical method, which was compared with that of finding through Monte Carlo method, and there was the feasibility for analyzing the workspace of the mechanism by graphical method. The characteristic of the mechanism was analyzed by comparing the results of two analysis methods, which provided a theoretical basis for the application of the mechanism.


Robotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Changxi Cheng ◽  
Wenkai Huang ◽  
Chunliang Zhang

SummaryParallel robots are widely used in the fields of manufacturing, medical science, education, scientific research, etc. Many studies have been conducted on the topic already. However, shortcomings still exist, especially in certain situations. To meet the demand of good speed and load performances at the same time, this work presents a novel 2-degree-of-freedom parallel robot. The structural design, static, stiffness, and reachable workspace analysis of the robot are given in the manuscript. Experiment regarding the accuracy and speed performance is conducted, and the results are provided. In the end, potential applications of the proposed robot are suggested.


Author(s):  
Tahir Rasheed ◽  
Philip Long ◽  
David Marquez-Gamez ◽  
Stéphane Caro

Mobile Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (MCDPRs) are special type of Reconfigurable Cable Driven Parallel Robots (RCDPRs) with the ability of undergoing an autonomous change in their geometric architecture. MCDPRs consists of a classical Cable-Driven Parallel Robot (CDPR) carried by multiple Mobile Bases (MBs). Generally MCDPRs are kinematically redundant due to the additional mobilities generated by the motion of the MBs. As a consequence, this paper introduces a methodology that aims to determine the best kinematic redundancy scheme of Planar MCDPRs (PMCDPRs) with one degree of kinematic redundancy for pick-and-place operations. This paper also discusses the Static Equilibrium (SE) constraints of the PMCDPR MBs that are needed to be respected during the task. A case study of a PMCDPR with two MBs, four cables and a three degree-of-freedom (DoF) Moving Platform (MP) is considered.


2013 ◽  
Vol 655-657 ◽  
pp. 1114-1118
Author(s):  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Yi Cao ◽  
Jing Hu Yu ◽  
Gui Lan Chen ◽  
Qiang Wang ◽  
...  

This paper mainly addressed the workspace analysis and performance evaluation of a special class of the 6/6 cable-suspended parallel robot. Based on the screw theory and the static equilibrium, the Jacobian matrix of the cable -suspended parallel robot is constructed. The workspace volume is characterized as the set of points where the centroid of the moving platform can reach with tensions in all suspension cables for a constant orientation. This paper attempts to tackle some aspects of optimal design of this special class of the 6/6 cable-suspended parallel robot by addressing the variations of the workspace volume and the accuracy of the robot using different geometric configurations, different ratios and orientations of the moving platform. The global condition index is used as a performance index of a robot with respect to the force and velocity transmission over the whole workspace.


2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (6A) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quang Hoang

The control of parallel robotic manipulator requires feedbacks of all the redundant coordinates and their derivatives. In practice, to have all feedback variables for the controller, a robot needs more sensors than its degree of freedom. These sensors measure not only the actuated joint variables, but also the auxiliary variables, position and velocity of the moving platform. In this paper, a novel method is introduced to estimate dependently generalized coordinates and motion of the moving platform. A kinematic error feedback technique is exploited to ensure the estimated motion converge to the actual motion of the robot.


Author(s):  
Marceau Métillon ◽  
Saman Lessanibahri ◽  
Philippe Cardou ◽  
Kévin Subrin ◽  
Stéphane Caro

Abstract Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) offer high payload capacities, large translational workspace and high dynamic performances. The rigid base frame of the CDPR is connected in parallel to the moving platform using cables. However, their orientation workspace is usually limited due to cable/cable and cable/moving platform collisions. This paper deals with the designing, modelling and prototyping of a hybrid robot. This robot, which is composed of a CDPR mounted in series with a Parallel Spherical Wrist (PSW), has both a large translational workspace and an unlimited orientation workspace. It should be noted that the six degrees of freedom (DOFs) motions of the moving platform of the CDPR, namely, the base of the PSW, and the three-DOFs motion of the PSW are actuated by means of eight actuators fixed to the base. As a consequence, the overall system is underactuated and its total mass and inertia in motion is reduced.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marceau Metillon ◽  
Philippe Cardou ◽  
Kevin Subrin ◽  
Camilo Charron ◽  
Stéphane Caro

Abstract Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) offer high payload capacities, large translational workspace and high dynamic performances. The rigid base frame of the CDPR is connected in parallel to the moving platform using cables. However, their orientation workspace is usually limited due to cable/cable and cable/moving platform collisions. This paper deals with the design, modelling and prototyping of a hybrid robot. This robot, which is composed of a CDPR mounted in series with a Parallel Spherical Wrist (PSW), has both a large translational workspace and an unlimited orientation workspace. It should be noted that the six degrees of freedom (DOF) motions of the moving platform of the CDPR, namely, the base of the PSW, and the three-DOF motion of the PSW are actuated by means of eight actuators fixed to the base. As a consequence, the overall system is underactuated and its total mass and inertia in motion is reduced.


2014 ◽  
Vol 933 ◽  
pp. 390-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wen Chen ◽  
Bing Yan Cui

The structure parameters of the robot directly affects its workspace, in order to get the relationship between the structure parameters of the robot and the size of workspace, an evaluation standards of the size of workspace is presented based on the mechanism of the center height. This paper proposes an novel 2URS&UPS parallel robot, it has Six degree of freedom. By using the sphere coordinate searching method, through the MTLAB programming calculated the influence of structural parameters on the workspace. Analysis results show that the parallel robot has the maximum workspace, when the static platform radius is 140mm and the moving platform radius is 120 mm, the rod length is 160mm. The study showed the parallel robot has advantage of a large workspace and symmetry. The parallel robot can be used for walking leg, mechanism arm, etc. The paper provide a theoretical basis for design of the parallel robot.


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