Kinematic and dynamic identification of parallel mechanisms

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive method to perform the physical model identification of parallel mechanisms. This includes both the kinematic identification using vision and the identification of the dynamic parameters. A careful attention is given to the issues of identifiability and excitation. Experimental results obtained on a H4 parallel robot show that kinematic identification yields an improvement in the static positioning accuracy from some 1 cm down to 1 mm, and that dynamic parameters are globally estimated with less than 10% relative error yielding a similar error on the control torque estimation. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.