Kinematic and Singularity Analysis of 3 PRR Parallel Manipulator

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 5015-5021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Arockia Selvakumar ◽  
K. Karthik ◽  
A.L. Naresh Kumar ◽  
R. Sivaramakrishnan ◽  
K. Kalaichelvan

Three degrees of freedom (DOF) parallel manipulator is used in the applications such as base for various machining operations, drilling inclined holes, airplane and automobile simulators, walking machines, pointing devices, contour milling and machining etc. The 3 DOF parallel manipulator consists of a fixed platform and a movable platform, which are connected by means of three identical links. Pin joints are used to connect the one end of the link and the lead screw pair. This 3 DOF 1R2T parallel manipulator is having one orientation freedom and two translational freedom, which is actuated by means of screw pair, which in turn operated by a stepper motor. The inverse kinematics and velocity equations of this mechanism have been derived mathematically. Based on this inverse kinematics and velocity equations singularity analysis is completed. Two kinds of singularities are compared with ADAMS simulation results and a prototype of the manipulator is developed for further study.

Author(s):  
Yangmin Li ◽  
Qingsong Xu

A novel three-degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) translational parallel manipulator (TPM) with orthogonally arranged fixed actuators is proposed in this paper. The mobility of the manipulator is analyzed via screw theory. The inverse kinematics, forward kinematics, and velocity analyses are performed and the singularities and isotropic configurations are investigated in details afterwards. Under different cases of physical constraints imposed by mechanical joints, the reachable workspace of the manipulator is geometrically generated and compared. Especially, it is illustrated that the manipulator in principle possesses a fairly regular like workspace with a maximum cuboid defined as the usable workspace inscribed and one isotropic configuration involved. Furthermore, the singularity within the usable workspace is verified, and simulation results show that there exist no any singular configurations within the specified workspace. Therefore, the presented new manipulator has a great potential for high precision industrial applications such as assembly, machining, etc.


Author(s):  
Zhongzhe Chi ◽  
Dan Zhang ◽  
Qiaokang Liang

This paper proposes a design for a machine tool based on a parallel kinematic manipulator with three degrees of freedom, including rotations about x and y axis and translation along z axe. Based on the investigated displacement and inverse kinematics, the system stiffness of the parallel manipulator is conducted. Then in order to observe the highest system stiffness single and multi objective optimizations are performed in terms of rotation angles about x and y axis and translation displacement along z axe. Finally, a case study of tool path planning is presented to demonstrate the application of stiffness mapping.


Author(s):  
Shihua Li ◽  
Zhen Huang ◽  
Jianguang Wu

In order to enrich deficient-DOF parallel mechanism models, a novel model of a 3-DOF platform manipulator is presented and establish its inverse kinematics equation. Here, studies instantaneous motions of 3-RRRRR parallel manipulator at initial configuration and general configuration. Find: it has three degrees of freedom at initial configuration and after translated along the X, Y, Z axis. Secondly, the relation is given between every active input (θ1) and moving platform position by using D-H means, the solution is developed for inverse kinematics, numerical example for the position kinematic is presented, the figure of workspace along the Z-axis is drawn finally. The mechanism can be applied to jiggle mechanism.


Author(s):  
Enrique Cuan-Urquizo ◽  
Ernesto Rodriguez-Leal ◽  
Jian S. Dai

This paper presents a novel parallel robot constructed with a three-limb CUP architecture. The mobility of the mechanism is obtained using screw theory, showing that the platform has three degrees of freedom, namely: (i) translation along the Z axis; and (ii) two rotations. The position analysis investigates the loop-closure equation resulting in a unique solution for the inverse kinematics problem and the identification of parasitic motions of the platform. The paper validates the analytical solution with a numerical example, where the results are compared with motion simulations of the manipulator using a commercially available software package.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangmin Li ◽  
Qingsong Xu

A new three degrees of freedom (3-DOF) translational parallel manipulator (TPM) with fixed actuators called a 3-PRC TPM is proposed in this paper. The mobility of the manipulator is analyzed via screw theory. The inverse kinematics, forward kinematics, and velocity analysis are performed and the singular and isotropic configurations are identified afterward. Moreover, the mechanism design to eliminate all singularities and generate an isotropic manipulator has been presented. With the variation on architectural parameters, the reachable workspace of the manipulator is generated and compared. Especially, it is illustrated that the manipulator in principle possesses a uniform workspace with a constant hexagon shape cross section. Furthermore, the dexterity characteristics are investigated in the local and global sense, respectively, and some considerations for real machine design have been proposed as well.


2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Hsing Kuo ◽  
Jian S. Dai

A crucial design challenge in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) robots is the provision of a fully decoupled four degrees-of-freedom (4-DOF) remote center-of-motion (RCM) for surgical instruments. In this paper, we present a new parallel manipulator that can generate a 4-DOF RCM over its end-effector and these four DOFs are fully decoupled, i.e., each of them can be independently controlled by one corresponding actuated joint. First, we revisit the remote center-of-motion for MIS robots and introduce a projective displacement representation for coping with this special kinematics. Next, we present the proposed new parallel manipulator structure and study its geometry and motion decouplebility. Accordingly, we solve the inverse kinematics problem by taking the advantage of motion decouplebility. Then, via the screw system approach, we carry out the Jacobian analysis for the manipulator, by which the singular configurations are identified. Finally, we analyze the reachable and collision-free workspaces of the proposed manipulator and conclude the feasibility of this manipulator for the application in minimally invasive surgery.


Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar Agrawal ◽  
Siyan Li ◽  
Glen Desmier

Abstract The human spine is a sophisticated mechanism consisting of 24 vertebrae which are arranged in a series-chain between the pelvis and the skull. By careful articulation of these vertebrae, a human being achieves fine motion of the skull. The spine can be modeled as a series-chain with 24 rigid links, the vertebrae, where each vertebra has three degrees-of-freedom relative to an adjacent vertebra. From the studies in the literature, the vertebral geometry and the range of motion between adjacent vertebrae are well-known. The objectives of this paper are to present a kinematic model of the spine using the available data in the literature and an algorithm to compute the inter vertebral joint angles given the position and orientation of the skull. This algorithm is based on the observation that the backbone can be described analytically by a space curve which is used to find the joint solutions..


Author(s):  
Sungwook Cho ◽  
David Hyunchul Shim

This paper proposes a Gaussian process based visual servoing framework for an aerial parallel manipulator. Our aerial parallel manipulator utilizes the on-board eye-in-hand vision sensor system attached on the end-effector of three-degrees-of-freedom parallel manipulator. There are three major advantages: small, light in weight, and linearity with respect to the host vehicle rather than the serial manipulator, but it has a critical drawback that its workspace is too small to perform the mission itself during the hovering. In order to overcome the limited workspace problem and perform the mission more actively, proposed visual servoing framework is proposed to generate relative body velocity commands of the host vehicle by using the interpolated and extrapolated feature path between the initial and desired features to fed into the underactuated aerial parallel manipulator. It can generate not only numerical stable but also feasible control input. Furthermore, it can overcome the weakness of the traditional image-based visual servoing such as singularities, uncertainties, and local minimums during calculating image Jacobian under the large disparity environment between the target and the unmanned aerial vehicle. As a result of the proposed contribution, we show that our contribution is reliable to perform the picking-and-replacement autonomously, and it shows that it can be applied in the large displacement environments throughout the flight test.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7 (105)) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Zhumadil Baigunchekov ◽  
Azamat Mustafa ◽  
Tarek Sobh ◽  
Sarosh Patel ◽  
Muratulla Utenov

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