231  Abstract—The kinematic of serial manipulators comprises the study of the relations between joint variables and Cartesian variables. We distinguish two problems, commonly referred to as the direct and inverse kinematic problems. The former reduces matrix multiplications, and poses no major problem. The inverse kinematic problems, however, is more challenging, for it involves intensive vari...

A novel 3-PUU parallel robot was put forward, on which kinematic analysis was conducted to obtain its inverse kinematics solution, and on this basis, the limitations of the sliding pair and the Hooke joint on the workspace were analyzed. Moreover, the workspace was solved through the three dimensional limit search method, and then optimization analysis was performed on the workspace of this par...

The paper derives the inverse and forward kinematic equations of a spatial three-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism, which is the parallel module of a hybrid serial-parallel 5-axis machine tool. This parallel mechanism consists of a moving platform that is connected to a fixed base by three non-identical legs. Each leg is made up of one prismatic and two pair spherical joint, which are connec...

This article presents a simulation-based strategy for sizing the actuators of a redundantly actuated robotic mechanism. The class of robotic mechanisms we consider may contain one or more closed loops and possess an arbitrary number of active and passive joints, and the number of actuators may exceed themechanism’s kinematic degrees of freedom. Our approach relies on a series of dynamic simulat...

In this paper, a 4-DOF robotic arm for tool handling in laparoscopic surgery is introduced. The robot provides sufficient force to handle endoscopic tools used for large organ manipulation and is capable of measuring the tool-tissue forces. The RCM constraint is achieved using a spherical mechanism and roll and insertion motions are provided using time pulley and spindle-drive, respectively. Th...

Comparing forward and inverse models to estimate the seasonal variation of hemisphere-integrated fluxes of carbonyl sulfide A. J. Kettle, U. Kuhn, M. von Hobe, J. Kesselmeier, P. S. Liss, and M. O. Andreae School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Received: 16 April 2002 – A...

A novel n(4-SPS+SP) serial-parallel manipulator (S-PM) formed by n 4-SPS+SP PMs with four degrees of freedom (DOF) connected in series is proposed in this paper. The kinematics , statics and stiffness modeJ of this seriaJ-PM is established. First , the forward kinematics of 4-SPS十SP (spherical jo口比-prismatic joint-revoJute十spherical joint-prismatic joint) PM is d 由er引l口附飞 SPS+SP) S-PM i 比s s 民t...

Traditional kinematic analysis of manipulators, built upon a deterministic articulated kinematic modeling often proves inadequate to capture uncertainties affecting the performance of the real robotic systems. While a probabilistic framework is necessary to characterize the system response variability, the random variable/vector based approaches are unable to effectively and efficiently charact...