Stiffness Modeling of Parallel Mechanisms at Limb and Joint/Link Levels

Drawing on screw theory and the virtual joint method, this paper presents a general and hierarchical approach for semianalytical stiffness modeling of parallel mechanisms. The stiffness model is built by two essential steps: 1) formulating the map between the stiffness matrices of platform and limbs using the duality of wrench and twist of the platform; and 2) formulating the map between stiffness matrices of a limb and a number of elastic elements in that limb using the duality of the wrench attributed to the limb and the twist of the endlink of that limb. By merging these two threads, the Cartesian stiffness matrix can be explicitly expressed in terms of the compliance matrices of joints and links. The proposed approach bridges the gap between two currently available approaches and is thereby very useful for evaluating stiffness over the entire workspace and investigating the influences of joint/link compliances on those of the platform in a quick and precise manner. A stiffness analysis for a 3-PRS parallel mechanism is presented as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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