Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of determining the optimal geometric parameters of a 3-DOF parallel manipulator. One of the advantages of the manipulator is that the moving platform exhibits ...

Abstract: A general three-dimensional thermal/stress grinding model, based on thermal and elastic/plastic classical analytical solutions, has been developed in this paper. The thermal model can predict the ...

Abstract: In this paper we propose a set of criteria to evaluate the performance of various parallel mechanism architectures for CNC machining applications. In the robotics literature mathematical formulations ...

Abstract: We present an optimization procedure that uses the Taguchi method to maximize the mean stiffness and workspace of a redundantly actuated parallel mechanism at the same time. The Taguchi method ...

Abstract: We present a new kinematic calibration algorithm for redundantly actuated parallel mechanisms, and illustrate the algorithm with a case study of a planar seven-element 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) ...