Vibration analysis of cable-driven parallel manipulators |
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Authors: | Xiumin Diao Ou Ma |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA |
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Abstract: | A cable-driven parallel manipulator is a manipulator whose end-effector is driven by a number of parallel cables instead of
rigid links. Since cables always have more flexibility than rigid links, a cable manipulator bears a concern of possible vibration.
Thus, investigation of vibration of cable manipulators caused by cable flexibility is important for applications requiring
high system stiffness or bandwidth. This paper provides a vibration analysis of general 6-DOF cable-driven parallel manipulators.
Based on the analysis of the natural frequencies of the multibody system, the study demonstrates that a cable manipulator
can be designed stiff enough for special applications like the cable-manipulator based hardware-in-the-loop simulation of
contact dynamics. Moreover, under an excitation, a cable may vibrate not only in its axial direction, but also in its transversal
direction. The paper also analyzes the vibration of cable manipulators caused by cable flexibilities in both axial and transversal
directions. It is shown that the vibration of a cable manipulator due to the transversal vibration of cables can be ignored
comparing to that due to the axial flexibility of cables. |
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Keywords: | Cable manipulator Cable robot Wire robot Vibration Cable stiffness |
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