Industrial robotic manipulators mostly use revolute or prismatic joints. In this paper, an anti-parallelogram mechanism, referred to as X-joint, is considered as an alternative choice to a revolute joint in the kinematic design of robots. This choice lends itself well to a remote actuation with cables, which contributes to lower inertia. We show that replacing revolute joints with X-joints in a planar 2-dof manipulator improves drastically the size of the workspace in the presence of joint limits. On the other hand, the kinematic analysis becomes significantly more difficult, owing to the much more complicated algebra involved in the input/output equations. The inverse kinematics, the singularities and the workspace optimization are investigated. A tentative design of a 2-X planar linkage is proposed and compared to its 2-R counterpart.


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    Title :

    Kinematic Analysis of a Planar Manipulator with Anti-parallelogram Joints and Offsets


    Additional title:

    Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics ; 2020 ; Ljubljana, Slovenia December 06, 2020 - December 10, 2020



    Publication date :

    2020-07-18


    Size :

    8 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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