Design and analysis of decoupled parallel mechanism with redundant actuator

This paper presents a redundantly actuated six degrees-of-freedom parallel kinematic mechanism with a partially decoupled architecture in its rotational motion. This mechanism is developed to eliminate kinematic complexity of original Eclipse-II known as a redundant parallel mechanism. Since the original Eclipse-II mechanism use kinematic redundancy of parallel mechanism to achieve an advantage in enlarging the workspace of the system, it needs a motion planning algorithm to choose the specific control inputs to determine the desired motion trajectory. This motion planning algorithm causes difficulty in achieving real-time control performance due to its structural complexity. However the redundant parallel mechanism presented in this paper is a redundant parallel mechanism with partially decoupled architecture in its rotational motion. Therefore modified Eclipse-II redundant parallel mechanism can realize effective real-time control performances and continuous 360-degree rotational motion in any direction of the moving platform with six degrees of freedom.

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