Stiffness analysis for 6-DOF mouth training parallel robot WY-5

Abstract

In this paper a mouth opening and closing training robot, named WY-5 (Waseda Yamanashi version 5), is analyzed in terms of stiffness characteristics. The basic models and formulation are proposed in order to deduce the stiffness matrix as a function of the most important stiffness parameters of the WY-5 architecture. A numerical simulation is also presented to discuss main features of the system.