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Architecture singularities in flagged parallel manipulators

Inst. de Robot. i Inf. Ind. (CSIC-UPC), Barcelona
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 06/2008; DOI:10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543801 pp.3844 - 3850 In proceeding of: Robotics and Automation, 2008. ICRA 2008. IEEE International Conference on
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ABSTRACT Flagged manipulators are of interest because they are the only Stewart-Gough platforms for which a cell decomposition of their singularity loci is available. Here we show that the known family of such manipulators can be enlarged if one allows robot designs that, for some particular parameter values, become architecturally singular. Along this line, the most general 6-6 flagged manipulator is derived by applying a singularity-preserving transformation that leaves the relative position between two lines invariant. This transformation opens up the possibility of an "equal cross ratios" architectural singularity, which is shown to appear clearly in the factorization of the Jacobian determinant. From the 6-6 flagged manipulator, all the extended family of (possibly architecturally-singular) flagged manipulators is derived.

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Keywords

6-6 flagged manipulator
 
allows robot designs
 
architecturally singular
 
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cell decomposition
 
Flagged manipulators
 
general 6-6 flagged manipulator
 
Jacobian determinant
 
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particular parameter values
 
ratios
 
relative position
 
singularity-preserving transformation