Managing the redundancy of N-1 wire-driven parallel robots
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We consider wire-driven parallel robot with N ≥ 4 wires that are connected at the same point on the platform. Such robot has 3 d.o.f. but it is non redundant (e.g. we cannot control the tension in the wires) as there will always be only at most 3 wires under tension simultaneously. We consider in this paper three approaches that make this robot really redundant: elasticity in the wires, using counterweights in the wires or attaching the redundant wires to a fixed point on the other wires. We show that these methods may be effective but still require further studies.
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