Design strategies for the geometric synthesis of orthoglide-type mechanisms

DOI10.1016/J.MECHMACHTHEORY.2004.12.006MaRDI QIDQ2387442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anatol Pashkevich, Damien Chablat, Philippe Wenger

Publication date 2 September 2005

Published in Mechanism and Machine Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3809

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15)

Abstract: The paper addresses the geometric synthesis of Orthoglide-type mechanism, a family of 3-DOF parallel manipulators for rapid machining applications, which combine advantages of both serial mechanisms and parallel kinematic architectures. These manipulators possess quasi-isotropic kinematic performances and are made up of three actuated fixed prismatic joints, which are mutually orthogonal and connected to a mobile platform via three parallelogram chains. The platform moves in the Cartesian space with fixed orientation, similar to conventional XYZ-machine. Three strategies have been proposed to define the Orthoglide geometric parameters (manipulator link lengths and actuated joint limits) as functions of a cubic workspace size and dextrous properties expressed by bounds on the velocity transmission factors, manipulability or the Jacobian condition number. Low inertia and intrinsic stiffness have been set as additional design goals expressed by the minimal link length requirement. For each design strategy, analytical expressions for computing the Orthoglide parameters are proposed. It is showed that the proposed strategies yield Pareto-optimal solutions, which differ by the kinematic performances outside the prescribed Cartesian cube (but within the workspace bounded by the actuated joint limits). The proposed technique is illustrated with numerical examples for the Orthoglide prototype design.

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