Jacobian, Manipulability, Condition Number and Accuracy of Parallel Robots

Parallel robots are nowadays leaving academic laboratories and are finding their way in an increasingly larger number of application fields such as telescopes, fine positioning devices, fast packaging, machine-tool, medical application. A key issue for such use is optimal design as performances of parallel robots are very sensitive to their dimensioning. Optimal design methodologies have to rely on kinetostatic performance indices and accuracy is clearly a key-issue for many applications. It has also be a key-issue for serial robots and consequently this problem has been extensively studied and various accuracy indices have been defined. The results have been in general directly transposed to parallel robots. We will now review how well these indices are appropriate for parallel robots.

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