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The Research on the Workspace and Singularity of the 3/3-RRRS Parallel Manipulator
  • Qiang Wang
  • Yi Cao
  • Guilan Chen
  • Ke Li
Status: Accepted
Keywords: Parallel Manipulator, Workspace Analysis, Singularity Analysis.
Received: 2014-07-10 Accepted: 2014-08-01 Published: 2014-08-25

Journal Subject

Part B

Article Type

Regular Paper (More than 4 pages)

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Abstract

The workspace of manipulator can be defined as the operational area of the end effector. Because the moving platform of the parallel manipulator with six degree-of-freedom have six independence degree-of-freedoms, it means the workspace has six-dimensional, the six-dimensional workspace is difficult to be directly calculate and unable to graphic description. For the project of this article--3/3-RRRS parallel manipulator, this article will analyze the workspace of the manipulator in two cases. A discretization method is proposed for the computation of the reachable position/orientation workspace of the 3/3-RRRS parallel manipulator, respectively. Four examples of a 3/3-RRRS parallel manipulator are given to demonstrate these theoretical results. As a special position and inherent attributes of the mechanism, singularity has a serious impact on the mechanism’s motion control performance and drive performance. The method of searching algorithm in three-dimensional space is applied to the singularity analysis, coordinate of all possible stable positions are substituting into the Jacobian, position-singular points under given orientation condition are conformed.

Author
  • Qiang Wang
  • Yi Cao
  • Guilan Chen
  • Ke Li
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