Point of optimal kinematic error: Improvement of the instantaneous helical pivot method for locating centers of rotation

[EN] This paper proposes a variation of the instantaneous helical pivot technique for locating centers of rotation. The point of optimal kinematic error (POKE), which minimizes the velocity at the center of rotation, may be obtained by just adding a weighting factor equal to the square of angular ve...

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Autores: De Rosario Martínez, Helios, Page Del Pozo, Alvaro Felipe|||0000-0002-5432-310X, Mata Amela, Vicente|||0000-0003-2255-0567
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/98071
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/98071
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Center of rotation
Instantaneous helical axis
Functional calibration
Optimization
FISICA APLICADA
INGENIERIA MECANICA
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Sumario:[EN] This paper proposes a variation of the instantaneous helical pivot technique for locating centers of rotation. The point of optimal kinematic error (POKE), which minimizes the velocity at the center of rotation, may be obtained by just adding a weighting factor equal to the square of angular velocity in Woltring's equation of the pivot of instantaneous helical axes (PIHA). Calculations are simplified with respect to the original method, since it is not necessary to make explicit calculations of the helical axis, and the effect of accidental errors is reduced. The improved performance of this method was validated by simulations based on a functional calibration task for the gleno-humeral joint center. Noisy data caused a systematic dislocation of the calculated center of rotation towards the center of the arm marker cluster. This error in PIHA could even exceed the effect of soft tissue artifacts associated to small and medium deformations, but it was successfully reduced by the POKE estimation.