Design of a Boat Simulator Using Two Parallel Manipulators

Author(s):  
Juan David López ◽  
Carlos Francisco Rodríguez

In this paper a boat simulator is designed using parallel manipulators. The simulator allows the training of five or seven people in a river environment. Due to the high payload and high inertial forces, it was proposed to divide the simulator into various synchronized platforms. Additionally different configurations of mechanisms were evaluated as well as linear or rotational actuation. The dimensional synthesis was performed by introducing a power index based on the Virtual Work equations of motion, and applying Genetic Algorithms for optimization. This design process results in using two coordinated manipulators with rotational actuators. The first one has two degrees of freedom (pitch and roll); it will simulate the motion of the boat’s stern. The second one has three degrees of freedom: pitch, roll and heave; and simulates the motion of the boat’s bow. The detail design was concluded and the manipulators were built. A real time controller is under design nowdays and the integration of the fluid and the boat dynamics into the inverse dynamics analysis of the manipulators is proposed as future work.

Robotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Mazare ◽  
Mostafa Taghizadeh ◽  
M. Rasool Najafi

SummaryIn this paper, a type of parallel robot with three translational degrees of freedom is studied. Inverse and forward kinematic equations are extracted for position and velocity analyses. The dynamic model is derived by Lagrange’s approach and the principle of virtual work and related computational algorithms implementing inverse and forward dynamics are presented. Furthermore, some numerical simulations are performed using the kinematic and dynamic models in which the results show good agreement with expected qualitative behavior of the mechanism. Comparisons with the results of work-energy and impulse-momentum methods quantitatively verify the validity of the derived equations of motion. Also, a relative computational effectiveness is observed in implementation of virtual work model via the simulations.


Author(s):  
Lung-Wen Tsai

Abstract This paper presents a systematic methodology for solving the inverse dynamics of parallel manipulators. Based on the principle of virtual work and the concept of link Jacobian matrices, a methodology for deriving the dynamical equations of motion is developed. It is shown that the dynamics of a parallel manipulator can be reduced to solving a system of six linear equations. To demonstrate the methodology, the dynamical equations of a Stewart-Gough platform are derived. A computer algorithm is developed and several different trajectories of the moving platform are simulated.


Robotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2018-2035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Liping ◽  
Xu Huayang ◽  
Guan Liwen

SUMMARYThe modules of parallel tool heads with 2R1T degrees of freedom (DOFs), i.e., two rotational DOFs and one translational DOF, have become so important in the field of machine tools that corresponding research studies have attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry. A 3-PUU (P represents a prismatic joint, U represents a universal joint) parallel mechanism with 2R1T DOFs is proposed in this paper, and a detailed discussion about its architecture, geometrical constraints, and mobility characteristics is presented. Furthermore, on the basis of its special geometrical constraint, we derive and explicitly express the parasitic motion of the 3-PUU mechanism. Then, the inverse kinematics problem, the Jacobian matrix calculation and the forward kinematics problem are also investigated. Finally, with a simplified dynamics model, the inverse dynamics analysis for the mechanism is carried out with the Principle of Virtual Work, and corresponding results are compared with that of the 3-PRS mechanism. The above analyses illustrate that the 3-PUU parallel mechanism has good dynamics features, which validates the feasibility of applying this mechanism as a tool head module.


Author(s):  
Stefan Reichl ◽  
Wolfgang Steiner

This work presents three different approaches in inverse dynamics for the solution of trajectory tracking problems in underactuated multibody systems. Such systems are characterized by less control inputs than degrees of freedom. The first approach uses an extension of the equations of motion by geometric and control constraints. This results in index-five differential-algebraic equations. A projection method is used to reduce the systems index and the resulting equations are solved numerically. The second method is a flatness-based feedforward control design. Input and state variables can be parameterized by the flat outputs and their time derivatives up to a certain order. The third approach uses an optimal control algorithm which is based on the minimization of a cost functional including system outputs and desired trajectory. It has to be distinguished between direct and indirect methods. These specific methods are applied to an underactuated planar crane and a three-dimensional rotary crane.


Author(s):  
Kris Kozak ◽  
Imme Ebert-Uphoff ◽  
William Singhose

Abstract This article investigates the dynamic properties of robotic manipulators of parallel architecture. In particular, the dependency of the dynamic equations on the manipulator’s configuration within the workspace is analyzed. The proposed approach is to linearize the dynamic equations locally throughout the workspace and to plot the corresponding natural frequencies and damping ratios. While the results are only applicable for small velocities of the manipulator, they present a first step towards the classification of the nonlinear dynamics of parallel manipulators. The method is applied to a sample manipulator with two degrees-of-freedom. The corresponding numerical results demonstrate the extreme variation of its natural frequencies and damping ratios throughout the workspace.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wu ◽  
Binbin Zhang ◽  
Liping Wang

The paper deals with the evaluation of acceleration of redundant and nonredundant parallel manipulators. The dynamic model of three degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) parallel manipulator is derived by using the virtual work principle. Based on the dynamic model, a measure is proposed for the acceleration evaluation of the redundant parallel manipulator and its nonredundant counterpart. The measure is designed on the basis of the maximum acceleration of the mobile platform when one actuated joint force is unit and other actuated joint forces are less than or equal to a unit force. The measure for evaluation of acceleration can be used to evaluate the acceleration of both redundant parallel manipulators and nonredundant parallel manipulators. Furthermore, the acceleration of the 4-PSS-PU parallel manipulator and its nonredundant counterpart are compared.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Sung Kim ◽  
Lung-Wen Tsai

This paper presents the design of spatial 3-RPS parallel manipulators from dimensional synthesis point of view. Since a spatial 3-RPS manipulator has only 3 degrees of freedom, its end effector cannot be positioned arbitrarily in space. It is shown that at most six positions and orientations of the moving platform can be prescribed at will and, given six prescribed positions, there are at most ten RPS chains that can be used to construct up to 120 manipulators. Further, solution methods for fewer than six prescribed positions are also described.


1999 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 986-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Saha

Constrained dynamic equations of motion of serial multibody systems consisting of rigid bodies in a serial kinematic chain are derived in this paper. First, the Newton-Euler equations of motion of the decoupled rigid bodies of the system at hand are written. Then, with the aid of the decoupled natural orthogonal complement (DeNOC) matrices associated with the velocity constraints of the connecting bodies, the Euler-Lagrange independent equations of motion are derived. The De NOC is essentially the decoupled form of the natural orthogonal complement (NOC) matrix, introduced elsewhere. Whereas the use of the latter provides recursive order n—n being the degrees-of-freedom of the system at hand—inverse dynamics and order n3 forward dynamics algorithms, respectively, the former leads to recursive order n algorithms for both the cases. The order n algorithms are desirable not only for their computational efficiency but also for their numerical stability, particularly, in forward dynamics and simulation, where the system’s accelerations are solved from the dynamic equations of motion and subsequently integrated numerically. The algorithms are illustrated with a three-link three-degrees-of-freedom planar manipulator and a six-degrees-of-freedom Stanford arm.


Author(s):  
Rosa Pàmies-Vilà ◽  
Josep M. Font-Llagunes

One of the aims of the dynamic analysis of human gait is to know the joint forces and torques that the musculoskeletal system produces during the motion. For this purpose, an 18 segment 3D model with 57 degrees of freedom is implemented. The analysis of a captured motion can be addressed by means of forward or inverse dynamic analyses. In this work, both analyses are computed using multibody dynamics techniques. The forward dynamic analysis is carried out with the aim of simulating the movement of the multibody system using the results of the inverse problem as input data. Since the inverse analysis is solved using a dynamically consistent methodology, the forward dynamic analysis allows us to simulate up to the 90% of the gait cycle without any controller. After that, a proportional derivative (PD) controller is implemented to stabilize the system, which gets to simulate the complete captured motion. Moreover, the dynamic contribution of the controller is really low and the simulated motion is extremely close to the original one. The methodology presented allows us to validate the correctness of the inverse dynamics analysis and it is an intermediate step towards the prediction problem: it requires dynamical consistency too, but the uncertainties involved in the problem are lower than in a predictive approach.


Robotica ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjie Zhao ◽  
Feng Gao

SUMMARYIn this paper, the inverse dynamics of the 6-dof out-parallel manipulator is formulated by means of the principle of virtual work and the concept of link Jacobian matrices. The dynamical equations of motion include the rotation inertia of motor–coupler–screw and the term caused by the external force and moment exerted at the moving platform. The approach described here leads to efficient algorithms since the constraint forces and moments of the robot system have been eliminated from the equations of motion and there is no differential equation for the whole procedure. Numerical simulation for the inverse dynamics of a 6-dof out-parallel manipulator is illustrated. The whole actuating torques and the torques caused by gravity, velocity, acceleration, moving platform, strut, carriage, and the rotation inertia of the lead screw, motor rotor and coupler have been computed.


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