Experimental Verification of the Properties of Fibres for the Mechanisms Based on Parallel Kinematic Structures

The paper was written in the framework of research in mechanisms of the increased mobility on the basis of parallel kinematic structures, for which a fibre control instead of rigid elements is designed. The experiment is focused on the verification of the fibre properties in simplified mechanical systems such as motion on an inclined plane, vibration of a moving weight hanging on a fibre and fibre interaction with two types of pulley. The arrangement and instrumentation of the experimental stand and of the system for the measurement of position and axial forces in a fibre are described. The results should serve for tuning the computational model, the results of which are also presented in the framework of specific experiments.