Parallel kinematics and PC-based control system for machine tools

Author

Pritschow, G. ; Tran, T.L.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Control Eng. of Machine Tools & Manuf. Units, Stuttgart Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

2605

Abstract

This paper describes a new machine tool based on parallel link mechanisms. The parallel kinematic machine tool has 3 degrees of freedom and is equipped with linear direct drives. The displacements of the TCP result from linear movements of the link elements with the length of the applied struts held constant. A single processor control system based on PC-hardware has been developed for the parallel manipulator. The controller simultaneously guarantees real time operation and the advantages of a Windows operating system

Keywords

industrial control; machine tools; manipulator kinematics; microcomputer applications; real-time systems; 3-DOF machine tool; PC-based control system; PC-hardware; TCP displacements; Windows operating system; linear direct drives; link element linear movements; parallel kinematic machine tool; parallel link mechanisms; parallel manipulator; processor control system; real time operation; Computer architecture; Control engineering; Control systems; Costs; Hardware; Kinematics; Machine tools; Manufacturing industries; Pulp manufacturing; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1998. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4394-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1998.757844

Filename

757844