Affiliation:
1. DIEM—Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Abstract
This article addresses parallel manipulators with fewer than six degrees of freedom, whose use may prove valuable in those applications in which a higher mobility is uncalled for. In particular, a family of 3-dof manipulators containing only revolute joints or at the most revolute and prismatic ones is studied. Design and assembly conditions sufficient to provide the travelling platform with a pure translational motion are determined and two sub-families that fulfill the imposed constraint are found: one is already known in the literature, while the other is original. The new architecture does not exhibit rotation singularities, i.e., configurations in which the platform gains rotational degrees of freedom. A geometric interpretation of the translation singularities is provided.
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Science Applications,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials
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