Journal
ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2021.102181
Keywords
Exechon; Parallel mechanism; Type synthesis; Unified kinematic analysis; 5-axis machining
Funding
- Industry-Academy Cooperation Project of Fujian Province [2019H6006]
- Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Transmissions, Chongqing University [SKLMT-ZDKFKT-202003]
- Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar of Fujian Province [2020J06010]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51875105]
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A family of one translational two rotational over-constrained Exechon inspired parallel mechanisms is synthesized through screw theory, and further comparatively analyzed in terms of inverse kinematics, singularity occurrence, and reachable workspace. A preferred configuration is selected based on kinematic evaluations, and a laboratory prototype is fabricated and experimentally tested to verify the feasibility of the type synthesis and the correctness of the kinematic analyses. By integrating the selected parallel mechanism with a sliding gantry, a novel hybrid kinematic machine tool is developed to perform 5-axis machining tasks, demonstrating the potential for constructing 5-axis serial-parallel hybrid machining devices.
To fully disclose potential configurations of parallel mechanisms (PMs) that are performance-comparable to the commercially successful Exechon, a family of one translational two rotational (1T2R) over-constrained Exechon inspired PMs is synthesized through the screw theory. The synthesized PMs are further comparatively analyzed in terms of inverse kinematics, singularity occurrence and reachable workspace based on a unified kinematic model. The kinematic analyses indicate that the inherited overconstraints benefit for eliminating the constraint singularity of all synthesized Exechon inspired PMs and the workspace distribution of an Exechon inspired PM is closely related to its topological arrangement. Based on the kinematic evaluations, a preferred configuration of 2UPR-1RPS PM ('R': revolute joint, 'U': universal joint, 'S': spherical joint, 'P': prismatic actuated joint) is selected as a candidate for 1T2R spindle head. A laboratory prototype is fabricated and experimentally tested to verify the feasibility of the type synthesis and the correctness of the kinematic analyses. By integrating the selected PM with a 2-degree of freedom sliding gantry, a full scale prototype of a novel hybrid kinematic machine tool is developed to perform 5-axis machining tasks. The well match between the machined workpiece and its designed shape fully proves the engineering potential of the synthesized PMs that are expected to be employed as the functional module to construct 5-axis serial-parallel hybrid machining devices.
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