Title
Determination Of The Optimal Geometry Of Modular Parallel Robots
Abstract
Modular parallel robots are mechanisms which can adapt their geometry according to the task to be performed, usually by changing the location of the attachment points of the legs on the base. The main ideas underlying this concept are that by changing the geometry of the robot one can extend the reachable workspace and furthermore, as the performances of parallel robots are very sensitive to the geometry, it will be possible to improve the performances of the robot. We propose an algorithm which first adapt the geometry so that a set of given trajectories is included in the workspace of the robot and then optimize an arbitrary secondary criterion. We show that indeed modular parallel robot allow for drastic increase in the performances of the robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241755
2003 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-3, PROCEEDINGS
Keywords
Field
DocType
modular parallel robots, optimal design, interval analysis
Robot control,Control theory,Computer science,Robot kinematics,Robot end effector,Control engineering,Robot locomotion,Self-reconfiguring modular robot,Cartesian coordinate robot,Geometry,Mobile robot,Articulated robot
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.91
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-pierre Merlet1819100.43