Developing contour surfaces of manipulators with specified dexterities

Authors:
K. y. Tsai;P. j. Lin;H. y. Yu
Affiliations:
Department of mechanical engineering, national taiwan university of science and technology, 43 keelung road, section 4, taipei 10672, taiwan;Department of mechanical engineering, national taiwan university of science and technology, 43 keelung road, section 4, taipei 10672, taiwan;Department of mechanical engineering, national taiwan university of science and technology, 43 keelung road, section 4, taipei 10672, taiwan
Venue:
Robotica
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Dexterity and workspace are two of the most important design criteria in developing manipulators. This paper presents algorithms for developing contour surfaces with specified dexterities and evaluating the area of the surfaces or the volume of the enclosed regions. The obtained results can be utilized to evaluate the dexterity and the rate of change of dexterity. Any closed curve or surface can be used to determine the singularity-free workspace of a manipulator with better dexterity. The proposed algorithms can be employed to study the dexterity and singularity-free workspace of 3-DOF manipulators and 4-DOF redundant serial manipulators. The contour surfaces in some subspaces of 6-DOF manipulators can also be investigated.