Computation of the Output Torque, Power and Work of the Driving Motor for a Redundant Parallel Manipulator

Inverse dynamic analysis of the 8-PSS redundant parallel manipulator is carried out in the exhaustive decoupled way. The required output of the torque, the power and the work of the driving motor are achieved. The whole actuating torque is divided into four terms which are caused by the acceleration, the velocity, the gravity, and the external force. It is also decoupled into the components contributed by the moving platform, the strut, the slider, the lead screw, the motor rotor-coupler, and the external force. The required powers contributed by the component of torque caused by the acceleration term, the velocity term, the gravity term, the external force term, and the powers contributed by the moving platform, the strut, the slider, the lead screw, and the motor rotor-coupler are computed respectively. For a prescribed trajectory, the required output work generated by the ith driving motor is obtained by the presented numerical integration method. Simulation for the computation of the driving motor’s output torque, power and work is illustrated. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3634-7.ch005