Design and validation of robotic bionic eye with multiple flexible ropes parallel mechanism inspired by oculomotor law

Producing a stable and agile bionic eye for visual image acquisition in robotics is a challenging task. In this paper, we design a bionic eye with mirror-symmetric distribution and cross-connection of flexible ropes. This mechanism is based on oculomotor law and the physiological structure of the extraocular muscles (EOMs). Specifically, the basic structural parameters are determined by Listing’s law, and the unique connection of the flexible ropes can realize the functions of the recti and oblique muscles. Furthermore, to mimic the trochlea structure, a pulley mechanism is constructed to permit the free movement of the flexible ropes. Through simulation and physical experiments, it is demonstrated that the bionic eye mechanism can move with agility under the structural parameters. The experimental results indicate that the proposed bionic eye mechanism has a superior motion accuracy of 2.798 mm, which is 6.7% of the maximum motion distance, and the repeatable accuracy of the mechanism can up to 0.210 mm.     

“Biaxiality Effect” on the Energy Dissipated by Elastoplastic Base-Isolators

A plane elastic-plastic solid body presenting kinematic hardening is used to simulate a pair of dampers at the base of a rigid structure and determine the energy dissipation under conditions of assigned, homogeneous cyclic loading. The well-known von Mises theory of plasticity is applied with the aim of obtaining analytical solutions to the problem. Such solutions are arrived at by first calculating the Odqvist parameter, which yields dimensionless relations that depend on the external loads and mechanical properties of the material. The results, in terms of dissipated energy, are given for the case of a sinusoidal process, represented with the help of dimensionless parameters useful for engineering applications.     

质心测试平台的运动学及其误差模型研究

为了探讨质心测试平台的结构参数误差引起质心测试结果的偏差,在对质心测试平台进行运动学分析的基础上,依据矩阵全微分理论,建立了结构参数误差与运动平台姿态误差模型。最后,通过计算机仿真对误差模型进行了验证,结果表明,该误差模型能够反映实际姿态误差的变化。     

多关节机器人通用体系结构的研究

结合一个五自由度教学工业两用型机器人应用实例，构造出多关节机器人通用体系结构，包括总体原型、机械结构、关节传动链、伺服驱动元件、电气控制系统、关节坐标系及其运动学方程、通信协议和软件设计思路等。通过实际使用表明，本文提出的通用体系结构是实用的、合理的。     

Tri-pyramid Robot: Design and kinematic analysis of a 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator

3-DOF translational parallel manipulators have been developed in many different forms, but they still have respective disadvantages in different applications. To overcome their disadvantages, the structure and constraint design of a 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator is presented and named the Tri-pyramid Robot. In the constraint design of the presented manipulator, a conical displacement subset is defined based on displacement group theory. A triangular pyramidal constraint is presented and applied in the constraint designs between the manipulator?s subchains. The structural properties including the decoupled motions, overconstraint elimination, singularity free workspace, fixed actuators and isotropic configuration are analyzed and compared to existing structures. The Tri-pyramid Robot is constrained and realized by a minimal number of 1-DOF joints. The kinematic position solutions, workspace with variation of structural parameters, Jacobian matrix, isotropic and dexterity analysis are performed and evaluated in the numerical simulations.     

Formulation of unified Jacobian for serial-parallel manipulators

This paper presents a general approach for Jacobian analysis of serial-parallel manipulators (S-PMs) formed by two lower mobility parallel manipulators (PMs) connected in serials. Based on the kinematic relation, coupling and constraint properties of each PM, the unified forward and inverse Jacobian matrices for S-PMs are derived in explicit form. It is shown that the Jacobian matrices of S-PMs have unified forms, which include the complete information of each PM. A (3-RPS)+(3-SPS/UP) S-PM is used as an example to demonstrate the proposed approach. The established model is applicable for S-PMs with various architectures.     

光伏板清洁机器人运动学建模与仿真

为实现光伏板清洁机器人的精准运动控制,运用D-H法建立光伏板清洁机器人臂架机构运动学数学模型。根据变量的性质,将光伏板清洁机器人臂架机构的运动学问题用驱动空间、关节空间、位姿空间之间的映射关系描述,根据机构的几何特征,分别推导出各工作空间之间的映射关系。在MATLAB环境下对臂架机构数学模型进行运动学仿真并绘制清洗装置末端轨迹包络图,验证光伏板清洁机器人臂架机构运动学数学模型的正确性。研究结果为光伏板清洁机器人轨迹规划、运动仿真与动力学分析等提供了理论依据。     

虚拟样机技术在轴向柱塞泵仿真分析中的应用

固液耦合效果对柱塞泵运动学与动力学特性影响很大。利用有限元分析软件,建立柱塞泵刚柔耦合模型,在此基础上建立其固液耦合虚拟样机模型。仿真研究斜盘倾角、主轴转速对柱塞泵运动学和动力学特性的影响,以及柱塞腔内压力变化规律。结果表明:泵的出口流量及压力脉动幅值随斜盘倾角的增大而增大;柱塞加速度与主轴转速的平方呈正比,造成柱塞泵受到的液压冲击力急剧增大。研究结果为柱塞泵性能的深入分析提供了参考。     

基于三坐标测量仪的Stewart平台标定技术

针对空间对接半物理仿真系统中Stewart平台的运动精度问题,提出一种基于三坐标测量仪的低成本标定方法.利用通用的三坐标测量仪获取运动平台的位姿信息,构造一个统一度量的残差方程,辨识出运动平台的几何参数并进行误差补偿.此方法的特点是能够保证所有几何参数的可辨识性,不再需要设计和加工专门用于标定的各种辅助机构和冗余传感器,具有较强的通用性和可操作性.本文阐述了该标定方法的标定过程,对残差方程的构造方式进行了讨论,仿真表明标定后平台的运动精度能够达到测量噪声的量级.最后将此方法用于某实际运动平台的标定,经过误差补偿后其精度提高了5倍以上.     

新型3-PUU并联机构的运动学和动力学分析及建模仿真

介绍了一种新型3-PUU并联机构,对其运动学方程进行分析,根据机构特征推导出转动支链和动平台的速度公式;采用Lagrange方程建立机构的动力学模型;分别在机构的3个移动支链上施加运动,通过计算机模拟,得到动平台的运动轨迹、受力、速度和加速度随时间变化的关系.