Development of a novel 6-DOF hybrid serial-parallel mechanism for pose adjustment of large-volume components

  • Shiwei Liu
  • , Yu Sun
  • , Gaoliang Peng
  • , Yuan Xue
  • , Anna Hnydiuk-Stefan
  • , Zhixiong Li*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel 6-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) hybrid mechanism is proposed to realize position and posture adjusting for large-volume equipment. The designed hybrid manipulator is composed of the lower and upper modules, namely, a 3-DOF redundant spatial parallel mechanism (SPM) and a 3-DOF planar parallel mechanism (PPM), which has three rotational and three translational DOFs. According to the step-by-step pose adjusting strategy, the kinematics analyses of the lower and upper modules have been carried out systematically. For the whole hybrid mechanism, a complete kinematic model has been established; and visualized workspace of the kinematic model with regular shape and large volume demonstrates profound application prospects in engineering. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanism, experimental tests have been conducted in an automated docking system for pose adjustment of large and heavy components. The analysis results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of the new mechanism.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2099-2114
Number of pages16
JournalProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Volume236
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Automated docking
  • hybrid serial-parallel mechanism
  • large-volume components
  • pose alignment system

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