Parallel Mechanisms. Parallel Mechanism Based Milling Machine.

A New Three-DOF Parallel Mechanism: Milling Machine Applications

This paper describes a new parallel kinematic architecture for machining applications, namely, the orthoglide. This machine features three fixed parallel linear joints which are mounted orthogonally and a mobile platform which moves in the Cartesian x-y-z space with fixed orientation. The main interest of the orthoglide is that it takes benefit from the advantages of the popular PPP serial mach...

An Active Dynamic Model for a Parallel-mechanism-based Meso-milling Machine Tool

In this paper, a detailed dynamic model for a general parallel kinematic mechanism (PKM) used in a reconfigurable meso-milling machine tool (RmMT) is developed in terms of active joint coordinates via the Lagrange formulation and appropriate coordinate transformations. The proposed dynamic model is, then, implemented numerically on a 3PPRS parallel configuration as an example to verify the effe...

Coordinate Measuring Machine Using Parallel Mechanism

Ab s trac t: T hi s s tu dy p rop ose s a n ew coor di n ate me as ur in g mac hi n e (C MM) b ase d on a s pat i al 3DO F p aral l el me ch ani s m. T he u se of th i s me ch ani s m wi l l p oten ti al l y i mp rove th e s ti ff ne s s, acc ur acy an d ef fi ci e nc y. T hi s p ape r d es cr i be s th e fu nd ame nt als an d an exp er i men tal CM M. T he i nf lu en ce of l i nk l ayout on th...

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)

Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem

A new constructive heuristic for the scheduling problem of n independent jobs on m identical parallel machines with minimum makespan objective is described. The proposed algorithm, which is an n logn algorithm as the LPT algorithm of Graham, iteratively combines partial solutions that are obtained by partitioning the set of jobs in suitable families of subsets. The algorithm was tested using di...