The (True) Stewart Platform Has 12 Configurations
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چکیده
We consider a Stewart platform and show that it forward kinematics has at most 12 solutions. A first geometrical demonstration is provided which uses the concept of circularity and in a second proof we show that this problem is equivalent to find a system of two planar parallel manipulators with each 6 solutions to the forward kinematic problem. A geometrical construction is provided to construct such a system and a Stewart Platform with 12 configurations is exhibited.
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