Design and analysis of a parallel mechanism for kinematically redundant hybrid planar laser cutting machine

Conventional planar laser cutting machines cannot achieve high accelerations, because the required precision values cannot be achieved due to the high inertial loads. Machines configured as kinematically redundant mechanisms are able to reach 5-6 g acceleration levels since they include a parallel mechanism with a smaller workspace which is exposed to smaller inertial loads. The study presented in this paper focuses on the design of a parallel planar mechanism to be integrated to the main axes of conventional planar laser cutting machines to achieve higher accelerations of the laser head up to 6 g. Parallel mechanism’s conceptual design and dynamic balancing studies are provided along with the joint clearance effect on precision due to having more joint structures.Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology & Coşkunöz Metal Form (Project code: 01668.STZ.2012-2

Type synthesis of 6-DOF mobile parallel link mechanisms based on screw theory

Mobile parallel mechanisms (MPMs), which are parallel mechanisms with moveable bases, have previously been proposed to resolve the limited workspace of conventional parallel mechanisms. However, most previous studies on the subject focused on the kinematic analysis of some specific MPMs and did not discuss a type synthesis method for MPMs. With this in mind, we propose a screw theory-based type synthesis method to find out possible 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) MPM structures. In our proposed method, the 6-DOF mobility is divided into 3-DOF planar motion and 3-DOF spatial motion, both of which are realized by the transmitted planar motions of the driving units. Separately, the type synthesis of the entire MPM is divided into that of the driving unit and connecting chain. To realize 3-DOF spatial motion, two methods, applying singularity configuration and adding an additional chain, are proposed as ways to restrict undesired motions for the synthesis of the connecting chain. The driving unit is synthesized via the same type-synthesis method as the connecting chain by considering the driving unit as a planar mechanism. The method used to integrate the driving unit and the connecting chain was constructed based on whether the end pair of the connecting chain should be connected with the driving unit directly or driven by it through an actuating mechanism. As a result, 284 possible types of MPM structure are suggested and four examples of MPMs with six DOFs were synthesized to verify the feasibility of the proposed method

Kinematics and Robot Design II (KaRD2019) and III (KaRD2020)

This volume collects papers published in two Special Issues “Kinematics and Robot Design II, KaRD2019” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KRD2019) and “Kinematics and Robot Design III, KaRD2020” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KaRD2020), which are the second and third issues of the KaRD Special Issue series hosted by the open access journal robotics.The KaRD series is an open environment where researchers present their works and discuss all topics focused on the many aspects that involve kinematics in the design of robotic/automatic systems. It aims at being an established reference for researchers in the field as other serial international conferences/publications are. Even though the KaRD series publishes one Special Issue per year, all the received papers are peer-reviewed as soon as they are submitted and, if accepted, they are immediately published in MDPI Robotics. Kinematics is so intimately related to the design of robotic/automatic systems that the admitted topics of the KaRD series practically cover all the subjects normally present in well-established international conferences on “mechanisms and robotics”.KaRD2019 together with KaRD2020 received 22 papers and, after the peer-review process, accepted only 17 papers. The accepted papers cover problems related to theoretical/computational kinematics, to biomedical engineering and to other design/applicative aspects

Advances in Robot Kinematics : Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advances in Robot Kinematics

International audienceThe motion of mechanisms, kinematics, is one of the most fundamental aspect of robot design, analysis and control but is also relevant to other scientific domains such as biome- chanics, molecular biology, . . . . The series of books on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) report the latest achievement in this field. ARK has a long history as the first book was published in 1991 and since then new issues have been published every 2 years. Each book is the follow-up of a single-track symposium in which the participants exchange their results and opinions in a meeting that bring together the best of world’s researchers and scientists together with young students. Since 1992 the ARK symposia have come under the patronage of the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine Science-IFToMM.This book is the 13th in the series and is the result of peer-review process intended to select the newest and most original achievements in this field. For the first time the articles of this symposium will be published in a green open-access archive to favor free dissemination of the results. However the book will also be o↵ered as a on-demand printed book.The papers proposed in this book show that robot kinematics is an exciting domain with an immense number of research challenges that go well beyond the field of robotics.The last symposium related with this book was organized by the French National Re- search Institute in Computer Science and Control Theory (INRIA) in Grasse, France

Industrial Robotics

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to advanced industrial robotics, sensors and automation technologies. Although being highly technical and complex in nature, the papers presented in this book represent some of the latest cutting edge technologies and advancements in industrial robotics technology. This book covers topics such as networking, properties of manipulators, forward and inverse robot arm kinematics, motion path-planning, machine vision and many other practical topics too numerous to list here. The authors and editor of this book wish to inspire people, especially young ones, to get involved with robotic and mechatronic engineering technology and to develop new and exciting practical applications, perhaps using the ideas and concepts presented herein

Robot Manipulators

Robot manipulators are developing more in the direction of industrial robots than of human workers. Recently, the applications of robot manipulators are spreading their focus, for example Da Vinci as a medical robot, ASIMO as a humanoid robot and so on. There are many research topics within the field of robot manipulators, e.g. motion planning, cooperation with a human, and fusion with external sensors like vision, haptic and force, etc. Moreover, these include both technical problems in the industry and theoretical problems in the academic fields. This book is a collection of papers presenting the latest research issues from around the world

Type Synthesis and Performance Optimization of Parallel Manipulators

Parallel robots have been widely employed in industrial applications. There are still some challenging topics in the fundamental research, e.g., the primary problem mobility analysis has not been solved for about 150 years. A universal mobility equation for all kinds of parallel architectures has not been found. Another issue lies on the performance measurements for parallel manipulators. There are plenty of kinematic and dynamic performance indices. However, the various ranges and scales of these indicators make the optimal design considering multiple indices complicated. It is essential to search for a unified approach to normalize performance indicators. More dynamic performance measurement indicators should be raised to explore the dynamic features and complete the theory for parallel mechanisms. In this research, an improved mobility equation is designed to reveal the degrees of freedom for a special class of parallel robots. A novel methodology called the kinematic joint matrix is proposed. It possesses the mapping relations with parallel manipulators. A series of 2-6 degrees of freedom parallel architectures is denoted by the kinematic joint matrix. The theory of screw is employed to check the feasibility from several kinds of parallel structures. A special block diagram is introduced to distinguish various kinematic joint matrices. Since this family of parallel robots contains various motion characteristics, four parallel robots with distinct features are selected. Based on the kinematic models, three categories of singularities are explored. The operational and reachable workspaces of the pure-translational parallel robots are searched and the parametric analyses are reported. The linkage’s impacts for the reachable workspace of the mixed-motion parallel architectures are investigated. The novel performance level index is designed to unify the positive performance index and demonstrated the performance rank for any pose (position and orientation). The dexterity index is utilized as an example to verify the characteristics of the level index. The distributions and parametric analyses of two novel mass-related performances are studied. The dimension synthesis of a selected planar parallel robot is presented based on the non-dominated genetic algorithm II. The experiment results testify the correctness of the mobility and kinematic mathematical models of this mechanism

Multibody dynamics 2015

This volume contains the full papers accepted for presentation at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics 2015 held in the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, on June 29 - July 2, 2015. The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics is an international meeting held once every two years in a European country. Continuing the very successful series of past conferences that have been organized in Lisbon (2003), Madrid (2005), Milan (2007), Warsaw (2009), Brussels (2011) and Zagreb (2013); this edition will once again serve as a meeting point for the international researchers, scientists and experts from academia, research laboratories and industry working in the area of multibody dynamics. Applications are related to many fields of contemporary engineering, such as vehicle and railway systems, aeronautical and space vehicles, robotic manipulators, mechatronic and autonomous systems, smart structures, biomechanical systems and nanotechnologies. The topics of the conference include, but are not restricted to: Formulations and Numerical Methods, Efficient Methods and Real-Time Applications, Flexible Multibody Dynamics, Contact Dynamics and Constraints, Multiphysics and Coupled Problems, Control and Optimization, Software Development and Computer Technology, Aerospace and Maritime Applications, Biomechanics, Railroad Vehicle Dynamics, Road Vehicle Dynamics, Robotics, Benchmark Problems. The conference is organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. The organizers would like to thank the authors for submitting their contributions, the keynote lecturers for accepting the invitation and for the quality of their talks, the awards and scientific committees for their support to the organization of the conference, and finally the topic organizers for reviewing all extended abstracts and selecting the awards nominees.Postprint (published version

Contributions à la maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles

Ce mémoire traite de mes contributions à la maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles. Le premier chapitre présente une introduction générale de mes travaux de recherche. Le deuxième chapitre présente mon curriculum vitae. Mes activités d'encadrement, les projets de recherche que j'ai montés ainsi que ceux auxquels j'ai participé et une synthèse de mes collaborations nationales et internationales sont mentionnés dans le troisième chapitre. Mon rayonnement au sein de la communauté scientifique, qui se traduit par des activités d'intérêt général, la participation à des comités d'expertise, des activités éditoriales, la participation à l'organisation de colloques et quelques distinctions scientifiques, ainsi que la liste de mes publications ont été décrits dans le quatrième chapitre. Le cinquième chapitre synthétise mes activités d'enseignement. Le sixième chapitre présente plus en détail mes activités de recherche principales qui sont organisées autour des deux thèmes suivants : (i) Maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles ; (ii) Conception et commande de nouveaux robots parallèles aux performances dynamiques améliorées. Enfin, le septième chapitre présente mes conclusions sur les travaux que j’ai pu mener ainsi que mes perspectives de recherche.Les activités de recherche que j'ai menées portent principalement sur la maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles qui sont des architectures mécaniques complexes dont les performances dynamiques sont encore mal maîtrisées. J'ai cherché à mieux maîtriser la dynamique de ces machines à deux niveaux :1.un premier niveau intitulé « maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles » qui se situe en aval de la phase de réalisation du robot : pour une machine donnée, comment mieux maîtriser ses performances dynamiques (par une modélisation plus fine, par la compréhension des phénomènes physiques mis en jeu et leur gestion par planification de trajectoire ou mise en place de contrôleurs avancés, etc.) ?2.un second niveau intitulé « conception et commande de nouveaux robots parallèles aux performances statiques et dynamiques améliorées» qui se situe en amont de la phase de réalisation du robot : pour des performances statiques et/ou dynamiques à atteindre, comment concevoir l'architecture de robot, voire la bonne adéquation {architecture de robot – contrôleur} qui permet de répondre au cahier des charges désiré ?Ces deux approches ne sont pas antagonistes, mais au contraire, elles sont complémentaires.Mes contributions principales autour de la maîtrise de la dynamique des robots parallèles se sont concentrées sur quatre points majeurs :1.L'étude des conditions de dégénérescence du modèle dynamique des robots parallèles 2.L'identification des paramètres du modèle dynamique rigide 3.La modélisation élastodynamique4.La proposition de techniques d'équilibrage permettant de diminuer la complexité de mise en oeuvreMes contributions principales autour de la conception et commande de nouveaux robots parallèles aux performances statiques et dynamiques améliorées se sont concentrées sur deux travaux majeurs :1.La conception de robots pour le déplacement de lourdes charges2.La conception et la commande de robots rapides et précisTous les résultats présentés, exception faite de ceux sur l'équilibrage dynamique, ont été validés expérimentalement.Les travaux présentés en perspectives se concentrent autour de deux grands axes thématiques:1.Maîtrise de la dynamique des systèmes,2.Conception de robots orientée environnements.Les activités que je souhaite mener sur la maîtrise de la dynamique des systèmes ciblent :a)La reconfiguration dynamique des robots,b)La modélisation et l'identification basées perception.Ces activités, qui s'inscrivent dans la continuité de mes travaux de recherche actuels.L'objectif du thème « Conception de robots orientée environnements », qui est un thème en rupture, est de proposer des méthodes génériques pour l'analyse, l'évaluation et la conception de nouvelles architectures de robots et de mécanismes,•en fonction d'un environnement donné (environnement en termes de milieu dans lequel le robot évolue, interagit, etc.) : le robot doit être doté d'un système de perception efficace associé à un contrôleur performant et il faut penser la conception du robot de manière intégrée afin que l'ensemble {architecture mécanique – contrôleur – capteurs –moteurs} soit le plus performant possible.•à faible impact pour l'environnement dans lequel ils évoluent (moins de pollution, moins de consommation énergétique, etc.)Les activités que je souhaite mener en conception orientée environnements ciblent :a)La proposition de méthodologies de conception orientée commande qui vont permettre de faire en sorte que l'ensemble {architecture mécanique – contrôleur – capteurs – moteurs} soit le plus performant possible pour une tâche, un ensemble de tâches, ou un environnement donnés,b)La conception de robots à faibles impacts environnementaux