The kinematic pair Pa2 is composed of two interlinked parallelograms. It has two degrees of freedom that generate a translational plane variable with position. It has a structure different from the PaPa pair, which is composed also by two parallelograms but generates a constant translational plane. Currently, the Pa2 pair is used at conceptual level but it is not used in al-most any practical application. There are advantages and drawbacks in using it. The main drawback is the high number of redundant constraints that this pair possesses. However, sub-stituting carefully the revolute joints by spherical joints can eliminate these redundant con-straints. Also, this pair constitutes a more rigid structure that replaces adequately the problem-atic passive prismatic joints. In this paper, will be presented a preliminary study of a translational parallel manipulator (PM) based on the use of the Pa2 pair: the 3-PPa2 that contains redundant constraints in its global structure. To study the potentiality of the PM presented in this paper, the following analyses will be done: position and velocity (direct and inverse kinematics), workspace and singularity analysis. Also the potentiality to be optimised will be studied. ; This work was supoorted by the Spanish Government through the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Project DPI2015-67626-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE)), the financial support from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) under the program UFI 11/29 and the support to the research group, through the project with ref. IT949-16, given by the Departamento de Educación, Política Lingüística y Cultura of the Regional Government of the Basque Country.


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    Title :

    Translational parallel manipulator with Pa2 kinematic joints



    Publication date :

    2016-10-01



    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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