Paper Info
Title
Kinematically Redundant Octahedral Motion Platform for Virtual Reality Simulations.
Abstract
We propose a novel design of a parallel manipulator of Stewart Gough type for virtual reality application of single individuals; i.e. an omni-directional treadmill is mounted on the motion platform in order to improve VR immersion by giving feedback to the human body. For this purpose we modify the well-known octahedral manipulator in a way that it has one degree of kinematical redundancy; namely an equiform reconfigurability of the base. The instantaneous kinematics and singularities of this mechanism are studied, where especially “unavoidable singularities” are characterized. These are poses of the motion platform, which can only be realized by singular configurations of the mechanism despite its kinematic redundancy.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Robotics
Parallel manipulator,Kinematics,Reconfigurability,Virtual reality,Simulation,Redundancy (engineering),Immersion (virtual reality),Engineering,Gravitational singularity,Motion simulator
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1704.04677
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georg Nawratil1225.94
Arvin Rasoulzadeh200.68