Solution of the Forward Kinematic Problem of 3UPS-PU Parallel Manipulators based on Constraint Curves

Adrián Peidró, Luis Payá, Sergio Cebollada, Vicente Román, Óscar Reinoso

2020

Abstract

Algebraic elimination methods for solving the forward kinematic problem of parallel manipulators are fast and obtain all solutions, but they require eliminating all unknowns except one, and solving a high-degree univariate polynomial whose coefficients often have expressions too complex to be obtained symbolically. This prevents parameterizing these coefficients in terms of all the kinematic parameters involved, which requires repeating the elimination process again whenever these kinematic parameters change. To avoid this, this paper presents an new method to solve the forward kinematics of 3UPS-PU parallel manipulators by eliminating only one unknown, reducing the system to an easily parameterizable set of planar constraint curves in the space of the remaining unknowns, which contain all real solutions of the forward kinematics. By sampling points from these curves densely, and sorting the sampled points using k-d trees, the proposed method manages to search all real solutions along these curves. The proposed method is compared to previous methods that obtain all solutions and is shown to perform about 100 times faster than these methods, but is less general than them.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Peidró A., Payá L., Cebollada S., Román V. and Reinoso Ó. (2020). Solution of the Forward Kinematic Problem of 3UPS-PU Parallel Manipulators based on Constraint Curves.In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-442-8, pages 324-334. DOI: 10.5220/0009828203240334

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco20,
author={Adrián Peidró and Luis Payá and Sergio Cebollada and Vicente Román and Óscar Reinoso},
title={Solution of the Forward Kinematic Problem of 3UPS-PU Parallel Manipulators based on Constraint Curves},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2020},
pages={324-334},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009828203240334},
isbn={978-989-758-442-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Solution of the Forward Kinematic Problem of 3UPS-PU Parallel Manipulators based on Constraint Curves
SN - 978-989-758-442-8
AU - Peidró A.
AU - Payá L.
AU - Cebollada S.
AU - Román V.
AU - Reinoso Ó.
PY - 2020
SP - 324
EP - 334
DO - 10.5220/0009828203240334