Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms

• Main Authors: Kong, Xianwen (Author), Gosselin, Clément (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 33
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.

This unique monograph focuses on the systematic type synthesis of parallel mechanisms (PMs), which is a key issue in the creative design of a wide variety of innovative devices based on PMs such as parallel manipulators, parallel kinematic machines (machine tools), motion simulators, haptic devices,...

Table of Contents:

• Synthesis Approach
• Structural Analysis
• Type Synthesis of Single-Loop Kinematic Chains
• Classification of Parallel Mechanisms
• Virtual-Chain Approach for the Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms
• Case Studies
• Three-DOF PPP= Parallel Mechanisms
• Three-DOF S= Parallel Mechanisms
• Three-DOF PPR= Parallel Mechanisms
• Four-DOF PPPR= Parallel Mechanisms
• Four-DOF SP= Parallel Mechanisms
• Five-DOF US= Parallel Mechanisms
• Five-DOF PPPU= Parallel Mechanisms
• Five-DOF PPS= Parallel Mechanisms
• Parallel Mechanisms with a Parallel Virtual Chain
• Conclusions.