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Changing Assembly Modes without Passing Parallel Singularities in Non-Cuspidal 3-RPR Planar Parallel Robots

Ilian A. Bonev, Ebastien Briot, Philippe Wenger, Damien Chablat

Year
2008
Citations
5

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that any general 3-DOF three-legged planar parallel robot with extensible legs can change assembly modes without passing through parallel singularities (configurations where the mobile platform loses its stiffness). While the results are purely theoretical, this paper questions the very definition of parallel singularities. 1.

Keywords

Gravitational singularityPlanarParallel manipulatorRobotComputer scienceTopology (electrical circuits)Parallel computingMathematicsComputer graphics (images)Combinatorics

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