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Direct position analysis of parallel manipulators which generate SP-2PS structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2005

Raffaele Di Gregorio
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, 1-44100 FERRARA; Italy E-mail: rdigregorio@ing.unife.it

Abstract

The determination of the assembly modes of the parallel structures with three legs of type PS or SP (P and S stand for prismatic pair and spherical pair, respectively) consists of solving the direct position analysis of all the three-legged parallel manipulators which have, in each leg, one not actuated prismatic pair, one not actuated spherical pair and one or two one-dof actuated pairs of any type, placed along the leg in any order. There are two types of such structures: (i) 3PS structures and (ii) SP-2PS structures. The procedure to determine the assembly modes of the SP-2PS structures has not been presented yet, in the literature. This paper presents the analytic form determination of the assembly modes of the SP-2PS structures. In particular, the closure equations of a generic SP-2PS structure will be written and their solution will be reduced to the solution of an eight-degree univariate polynomial equation with real coefficients. Finally, the proposed algorithm will be applied to a real case. The result of this study is that the assembly modes of any SP-2PS structure are at most eight, and the end-effector poses, which solve the direct position analysis of the parallel manipulators that generate those structures, are also eight.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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