Higher-order continuation for the determination of robot workspace boundaries

Autor: Gauthier Hentz, Pierre Renaud, Isabelle Charpentier
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Comptes Rendus Mécanique. 344(2):95-101
ISSN: 1631-0721
DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2015.10.001
Popis: In the medical and surgical fields, robotics may be of great interest for safer and more accurate procedures. Space constraints for a robotic assistant are however strict. Therefore, roboticists study non-conventional mechanisms with advantageous size/workspace ratios. The determination of mechanism workspace, and primarily its boundaries, is thus of major importance. This Note builds on boundary equation definition, continuation and automatic differentiation to propose a general, accurate, fast and automated method for the determination of mechanism workspace. The method is illustrated with a planar RRR mechanism and a three-dimensional Orthoglide parallel mechanism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE