Abstract: This paper presents novel 2DOF and 3DOF closed-chain orientational manipulators, whose end-effector motion is actuated in a decoupled and homokinetic way by frame-located motors via holonomic ...

Abstract: Gravity compensation of spatial parallel manipulators is a relatively recent topic of investigation. Perfect balancing has been accomplished, so far, only for parallel mechanisms in which the ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the dynamic model of Gough/Stewart-type platforms, focusing on aspects concerning the proper modeling of leg constraints that seem to have been overlooked in a nonnegligible ...

Abstract: This article addresses parallel manipulators with fewer than six degrees of freedom, whose use may prove valuable in those applications in which a higher mobility is uncalled for. In particular, ...

Abstract: This article presents the position analysis of a new family of 3-limbed 3-dof parallel manipulators, whose output links exhibit a motion of pure translation with respect to the base. Each limb ...

Abstract: This article presents the inverse static analysis of a two degrees of freedom planar mechanism with flexural pivots. Such analysis aims to detect the entire set of equilibrium configurations ...