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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 2352-2362.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1093.2019.11.020

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Design and Kinematic Modeling of Cable-driven 4-SPS/U Rigid-flexible Parallel Trunk Joint Mechanism with Spring

PAN Yitao, CHEN Yuan, WANG Lidong, LU Hao   

  1. (School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai,Weihai 264200, Shandong, China)
  • Received:2018-12-27 Revised:2018-12-27 Online:2019-12-31

Abstract: A two-degrees-of-freedom cable-driven 4-SPS/U rigid-flexible parallel trunk joint mechanism is proposed by using the construction method of over-constrained parallel mechanism, which has the advantages of wire-driven mechanism and rigid parallel mechanism. A mobile hexapod robot which is composed by the trunk joint mechanisms is established. The trunk joint mechanism can enable the hexapod mobile robot to flexibly realize various motion modes, such as walking, underwater propulsion, climbing and rolling. The degree of freedom of cable-driven 4SPS/U rigid-flexible parallel trunk joint mechanism is calculated by using screw theory. An inverse kinematics model of the mechanism is constructed by using the closed vector method and the decoupling method for eigenstructure assignment. The velocity and acceleration models of the mechanism are derived, and the singularity of the mechanism is analyzed by Jacobian matrix. The theoretically simulated datum of displacement, velocity and acceleration of trunk joint mechanism are calculated through theoretical numerical examples, and the theoretically simulated datum are compared with the simulated results of Adams software, which verifies the correctness of the theoretical model. Key

Key words: trunkjointmechanism, cable-driving, screwtheory, kinematicalmodeling

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