Analyses of the stiffness and elastic deformation of a 2(3-SPR) serial—parallel manipulator

Author(s):  
Y Lu ◽  
B Hu ◽  
J Yu

Stiffness is one of the important indices for evaluating the performances of serial—parallel manipulators (S—PMs), particularly when the S—PMs are used as machine tools and the robot arm/leg, and higher stiffness allows higher machining speed with higher accuracy of the end-effector. In this article, the stiffness and the elastic deformation of a 2(3-SPR) S—PM are studied systematically. First, a 2(3-SPR) S—PM, including an upper 3-SPR parallel manipulator (PM) and a lower 3-SPR PM, is constructed, and its characteristics are analysed. Second, some formulae for solving the elastic deformation and the compliance matrix of the active legs are derived from the available kinematics/statics of this S—PM. Third, based on the principle of virtual work and the compliance matrix of the active legs, the elastic deformation and the total stiffness matrix of this S—PM are solved and analysed.

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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Jesús Cervantes-Sánchez ◽  
José M. Rico-Martínez ◽  
Salvador Pacheco-Gutiérrez ◽  
Gustavo Cerda-Villafaña

Author(s):  
Richard Stamper ◽  
Lung-Wen Tsai

Abstract The dynamics of a parallel manipulator with three translational degrees of freedom are considered. Two models are developed to characterize the dynamics of the manipulator. The first is a traditional Lagrangian based model, and is presented to provide a basis of comparison for the second approach. The second model is based on a simplified Newton-Euler formulation. This method takes advantage of the kinematic structure of this type of parallel manipulator that allows the actuators to be mounted directly on the base. Accordingly, the dynamics of the manipulator is dominated by the mass of the moving platform, end-effector, and payload rather than the mass of the actuators. This paper suggests a new method to approach the dynamics of parallel manipulators that takes advantage of this characteristic. Using this method the forces that define the motion of moving platform are mapped to the actuators using the Jacobian matrix, allowing a simplified Newton-Euler approach to be applied. This second method offers the advantage of characterizing the dynamics of the manipulator nearly as well as the Lagrangian approach while being less computationally intensive. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the close agreement between the two models.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Haiqiang Zhang ◽  
Hairong Fang ◽  
Qi Zou ◽  
Dan Zhang

Control of parallel manipulators is very hard due to their complex dynamic formulations. If part of the complexity is resulting from uncertainties, an effective manner for coping with these problems is adaptive robust control. In this paper, we proposed three types of adaptive robust synchronous controllers to solve the trajectory tracking problem for a redundantly actuated parallel manipulator. The inverse kinematic of the parallel manipulator was firstly developed, and the dynamic formulation was further derived by mean of the principle of virtual work. Furthermore, linear parameterization regression matrix was determined by virtue of command function “equationsToMatrix” in MATLAB. Secondly, the three adaptive robust synchronous controllers (i.e., sliding mode control, high gain control, and high frequency control) are developed, by incorporating the camera sensor technique into adaptive robust synchronous control architecture. The stability of the proposed controllers was proved by utilizing Lyapunov theory. A sequence of simulation tests were implemented to prove the performance of the controllers presented in this paper. The three proposed controllers can theoretically guarantee the errors including trajectory tracking errors, synchronization errors, and cross-coupling errors asymptotically converge to zero for a given trajectory, and the estimated unknown parameters can also approximately converge to their actual values in the presence of unmodeled dynamics and external uncertainties. Moreover, all the simulation comparative results were presented to illustrate that the adaptive robust synchronous high-frequency controller possess a much superior comprehensive performance than two other controllers.


Author(s):  
Yanwen Li ◽  
Yueyue Zhang ◽  
Lumin Wang ◽  
Zhen Huang

This paper investigates a novel 4-DOF 3-RRUR parallel manipulator, the number and the characteristics of its degrees of freedom are determined firstly, the rational input plan and the invert and forward kinematic solutions are carried out then. The corresponding numeral example of the forward kinematics is given. This type of parallel manipulators has a symmetrical structure, less accumulated error, and can be used to construct virtual-axis machine tools. The analysis in this paper will play an important role in promoting the application of such manipulators.


Robotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siamak Pedrammehr ◽  
Houshyar Asadi ◽  
Saeid Nahavandi

SummaryThis paper investigates the vibrations of hexarot simulators. The generalized modeling of kinematics and dynamics formulation of a hexarot mechanism is addressed. This model considers the flexible manipulator with the base motion. The dynamic formulation has been developed based on the principle of virtual work. The dynamic model consists of the stiffness of the different parts of the mechanism, the effects of gravity and inertia, torque and force related to the joints viscous friction. Finally, the response of the end effector at various frequencies has been presented, and the vibrations of the mechanism and the dynamic stability index have been investigated.


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.


Robotica ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Di Gregorio

In the literature, 3-RRPRR architectures were proposed to obtain pure translation manipulators. Moreover, the geometric conditions, which 3-RRPRR architectures must match, in order to make the end-effector (platform) perform infinitesimal (elementary) spherical motion were enunciated. The ability to perform elementary spherical motion is a necessary but not sufficient condition to conclude that the platform is bound to accomplish finite spherical motion, i.e. that the mechanism is a spherical parallel manipulator (parallel wrist). This paper demonstrates that the 3-RRPRR architectures matching the geometric conditions for elementary spherical motion make the platform accomplish finite spherical motion, i.e. they are parallel wrists (3-RRPRR wrist), provided that some singular configurations, named translation singularities, are not reached. Moreover, it shows that 3-RRPRR wrists belong to a family of parallel wrists which share the same analytic expression of the constraints which the legs impose on the platform. Finally, the condition that identifies all the translation singularities of the mechanisms of this family is found and geometrically interpreted. The result of this analysis is that the translation singularity locus can be represented by a surface (singularity surface) in the configuration space of the mechanism. Singularity surfaces drawn by exploiting the given condition are useful tools in designing these wrists.


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