The use of robotic manipulators in remote and sensitive areas calls for more robust solutions when handling joint failure, and the industry demands mathematically robust approaches to handle even the worst case scenarios. For both serial and parallel manipulators torque failure is indeed a worst case scenario. Thus, a systematic analysis of the effects of external forces on manipulators with pa...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the notion of aspect in the workspace and in the joint space for parallel manipulators. In opposite to the serial manipulators, the parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [1], and redefined for parallel manipula...

Manipulation is a problem of fundamental importance in the context of voting in which the voters exercise their votes strategically instead of voting honestly to prevent selection of an alternative that is less preferred. The GibbardSatterthwaite theorem shows that there is no strategy-proof voting rule that simultaneously satisfies certain combinations of desirable properties. Researchers have...

In this paper we address the problem of identifying the property of the singularity loci of a class of 6/6-Gough–Stewart manipulators in which the moving and base platforms are two similar semiregular hexagons. After constructing the Jacobian matrix of this class of 6/6-Gough–Stewart manipulators according to the theory of statical equilibrium, we derive a cubic polynomial expression in the mov...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the notion of aspect in the workspace and in the joint space for parallel manipulators. In opposite to the serial manipulators, the parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [1], and redefined for parallel manipula...

Manipulators with free joints are second-order nonholonomic systems whose dynamical constraints are nonintegrable. Such systems are known to be underactuated systems which can be controlled by less actuator than the dimension of the configuration space. Previously proposed methods to control free-joint manipulators have been based on the assumption of perfectly frictionless free joints. In this...

This paper introduces a novel method for Cartesian trajectory and performance optimization control of kinematically-redundant truss-based manipulators (TBMs): The Virtual Serial Manipulator Approach. The approach is to model complex parallel-actuated TBMs as simpler kinematically-equivalent virtual serial manipulators. Standard control methods for kinematicallyredundant serial manipulators can ...

In this paper, the inverse kinematics solutions for 16 industrial 6-Degrees-of-Freedom (DOF) robot manipulators with offset wrists are solved analytically and numerically based on the existence of the closed form equations. A new numerical algorithm is proposed for the inverse kinematics of the robot manipulators that cannot be solved in closed form. In order to illustrate the performance of th...

Accuracy and energy consumption are key aspects to be considered when using serial manipulators in industrial environment. Affordable operational and maintenance costs are very important issues for automated processes. However, high performance robots also require increasing precision when performing sophisticated tasks. In this paper a method for optimal path planning and task adjustment of co...

The present paper attempts to systematically identify the significant factors influencing the dynamic performance of robot manipulators. Two 3-RRR robot configurations planar and articulated arms are considered here to study. The robots kinematic and dynamic models are symbolically formulated. A simulation program has been developed to measure the dynamic performance of the robot manipulators u...