Schönflies Motion PARAllel Robot (SPARA): A Kinematically Redundant Parallel Robot With Unlimited Rotation Capabilities

Louis-Thomas Schreiber, Clément Gosselin

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 2019 · 36 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

This paper presents a kinematically redundant parallel mechanism capable of generating the Schönflies motion with unlimited rotation capabilities. The kinematic modeling is presented and the analysis of the Jacobian matrices provides a basis for the singularity analysis of the manipulator. It is shown that the mechanism has unlimited rotation capabilities in a large translational workspace. The design of a prototype and experimental results are also presented.

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