Mechatronic design, experimental setup, and control architecture design of a novel 4 DoF parallel manipulator

[EN] Although parallel manipulators started with the introduction of architectures with six degrees of freedom, a vast number of applications require less than six degrees of freedom. Consequently, scholars have proposed architectures with three and four degrees of freedom, but relatively few four d...

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Autores: Vallés Miquel, Marina|||0000-0002-6396-0098, Mata Amela, Vicente|||0000-0003-2255-0567, Valera Fernández, Ángel|||0000-0001-6843-6394, Page Del Pozo, Alvaro Felipe|||0000-0002-5432-310X, Araujo-Gómez, P., Díaz-Rodríguez, Miguel, Farhat, Nidal
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/148244
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/148244
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Control architecture design
Kinematics
Mechatronics
Parallel manipulator
Robot control
FISICA APLICADA
INGENIERIA MECANICA
INGENIERIA DE SISTEMAS Y AUTOMATICA
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Resumo:[EN] Although parallel manipulators started with the introduction of architectures with six degrees of freedom, a vast number of applications require less than six degrees of freedom. Consequently, scholars have proposed architectures with three and four degrees of freedom, but relatively few four degrees of freedom parallel manipulators have become prototypes, especially of the two rotation and two translation motion types. In this article, we explain the mechatronics design, prototype, and control architecture design of a four degrees of freedom parallel manipulators with two rotation and two translation motions. We chose to design a four degrees of freedom manipulator based on the motion needed to complete the tasks of lower limb rehabilitation. To the author's best knowledge, parallel manipulators between three and six degrees of freedom for rehabilitation of lower limb have not been proposed to date. The developed architecture enhances the three minimum degrees of freedom required by adding a four degrees of freedom, which allows combinations of normal or tangential efforts in the joints, or torque acting on the knee. We put forward the inverse and forward displacement equations, describe the prototype, perform the experimental setup, and develop the hardware and control architecture. The tracking accuracy experiments from the proposed controller show that the manipulator can accomplish the required application.