Enhanced stiffness modeling of manipulators with passive joints |
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Authors: | Anatol Pashkevich Alexandr Klimchik Damien Chablat |
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Affiliation: | a Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 4 rue Alfred-Kastler, Nantes 44307, Franceb Institut de Recherches en Communications et en Cybernetique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6597, 1 rue de la Noe, 44321 Nantes, France |
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Abstract: | The paper presents a methodology to enhance the stiffness analysis of serial and parallel manipulators with passive joints. It directly takes into account the influence of external and internal loadings on the manipulator configuration and, consequently, on its Jacobians and Hessians. The main contributions of this paper are the introduction of a non-linear stiffness model for the manipulators with passive joints, a relevant numerical technique for computing the Cartesian stiffness and stability criteria for configurations of the kinematic chains. Within the developed technique, the manipulator elements are presented as pseudo-rigid bodies separated by multidimensional virtual springs and perfect passive joints. Simulation examples are presented that deal with parallel manipulators of the Ortholide family and demonstrate the ability of the developed methodology to describe non-linear behavior of the manipulator structure such as a sudden change of the elastic instability properties (buckling). |
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Keywords: | Stiffness Parallel mechanisms External and internal loading Equilibrium configuration Stability |
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