Kinematic Analysis of a Parallel Manipulator Driven by Perpendicular Linear Actuators

Autor: Kee-Bong Choi, Jaejong Lee, Geehong Kim, Hyungjun Lim, Soongeun Kwon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Actuators, Vol 10, Iss 10, p 262 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-0825
64659933
DOI: 10.3390/act10100262
Popis: In this paper, a goniometer-type specimen stage with a linear actuation mechanism mounted on a rotation mechanism is introduced. The linear actuation mechanism was modeled as a spatial parallel manipulator consisting of a moving body, three linear actuators, and an anti-rotation mechanism. The three linear actuators were arranged perpendicular to each other. In the specimen stage, the linear actuators were in ball contact with the surface of a holder designed to hold a specimen. For the parallel manipulator, the ball contact was replaced with two prismatic joints and a spherical joint. The mobility of the manipulator without the anti-rotation mechanism was one degree of freedom greater than the number of actuators. Therefore, the redundant one degree-of-freedom motion was restrained using an anti-rotation mechanism with three rotation joints and two prismatic joints. The inverse and direct kinematics of the goniometer mechanism were derived and verified. In addition, the inverse Jacobian was derived, and local and global performance indices were analyzed by the terms of manipulability and isotropy. Finally, the goniometer-type specimen stage was designed by the global performance indices.
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