A Classification of Robot Compliance

摘要

The concept of compliant axes is developed from the compliance matrix eigenvalue problem. It is shown that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a compliant axis are two collinear eigenscrews with eigenvalues of equal magnitude and opposite sign. This leads to a new classification of compliance matrices based on the number of compliant axes. Selected matrices from the literature illustrate both the compliant axis concept and the classification.