Title :
CaPaMan (Cassino Parallel Manipulator) as sensored earthquake simulator
Author :
Ceccarelli, Marco ; Pugliese, Fabio ; Lanni, Chiara ; Carvalho, Joao Carlos Mendes
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, Cassino Univ., Cassino, Italy
Abstract :
We report results of successful experiences using CaPaMan (Cassino Parallel Manipulator) as an earthquake simulator. The paper describes the experimental set up for a sensored mobile plate for verifying the numerical simulations with practical experiments. Reproducing accelerometer diagrams of actual earthquakes has proved a practical feasibility. Some numerical and experimental results are reported in the paper to show the interest for this application of CaPaMan
Keywords :
acceleration measurement; earthquakes; manipulators; seismology; torque measurement; CaPaMan; Cassino Parallel Manipulator; accelerometer diagrams; numerical simulations; sensored earthquake simulator; sensored mobile plate; Accelerometers; Earthquakes; Joining IEEE; Joining processes; Laboratories; Leg; Manipulators; Numerical simulation; Parallel robots; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1999. IROS '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyongju
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5184-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1999.811691
