• DocumentCode
    2236915
  • Title

    Mobility analysis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators based on screw theory

  • Author

    Li, Qinchuan ; Huang, Zhen

  • Author_Institution
    Robotics Res. Center, Yanshan Univ., Hebei, China
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    14-19 Sept. 2003
  • Firstpage
    1179
  • Abstract
    Mobility analysis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators is of great importance in the context of analysis and design. A method is proposed for the mobility analysis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators based on screw theory. The limb structural constraint acting on the moving platform is first analyzed. Then the combined effect of all limb structural constraints is obtained by investigating the geometrical conditions of the linear dependency of them. Moreover, identification of the instantaneous mechanism is performed. The method is testified through examples including 4- and 5-DOF parallel mechanisms.
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; constraint theory; manipulator kinematics; 4-DOF; 5-DOF; limb structural constraint; lower mobility parallel manipulators; mobility analysis; moving platform; parallel mechanisms; screw theory; Costs; Fasteners; Kinematics; Manipulators; Manufacturing; Materials handling; Mobile robots; Parallel robots; Performance analysis; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1050-4729
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7736-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241752
  • Filename
    1241752