This book focuses on the synthesis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, presenting a group-theory-based method that has the advantage of being geometrically intrinsic. Rotations and translations of a rigid body as well as a combination of the two can be expressed and handled elegantly using the group algebraic structure of the set of rigid-body displacements. The book gathers the authors’ research results, which were previously scattered in various journals and conference proceedings, presenting them in a unified form. Using the presented method, it reveals numerous novel architectures of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, which are of interest to those in the robotics community. More importantly, readers can use the method and tool to develop new types of lower-mobility parallel manipulators independently.
This book focuses on the synthesis of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, presenting a group-theory-based method that has the advantage of being geometrically intrinsic. Rotations and translations of a rigid body as well as a combination of the two can be expressed and handled elegantly using the group algebraic structure of the set of rigid-body displacements. The book gathers the authors’ research results, which were previously scattered in various journals and conference proceedings, presenting them in a unified form. Using the presented method, it reveals numerous novel architectures of lower-mobility parallel manipulators, which are of interest to those in the robotics community. More importantly, readers can use the method and tool to develop new types of lower-mobility parallel manipulators independently.
Introduces the synthesis of parallel manipulators using a group-theory-based approach Provides general procedures for the synthesis of parallel manipulators Includes over 100 lower-mobility parallel manipulators with promising application prospects
Qinchuan Li
Group Theory Type Synthesis Lower Mobility Parallel Manipulator 5-DOF 3R2T Parallel Mechanisms 4-DOF 2R2T Parallel Mechanisms Bifurcation of Schoenflies Motion 3-DOF RPR-Equivalent Parallel Mechanisms Remote Center-of-Motion Parallel Manipulators Fixed Linear Actuators Minimally Invasive Surgery Less Structural Shakiness Type Synthesis of Pan-Tilt Wrists Uncoupled Actuation
“The intended audience for this book consists of mechanical and control researchers and engineers as well as graduate and Ph.D. students in manipulators and robotics.” (Clementina Mladenova, zbMATH 1425.70001, 2019)
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