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 ...

This paper deals with the identification problem of the inertial and frictional parameters of a parallel manipulator. Two important issue are considered; the physical feasibility of the identified inertial parameters and the use of linear and nonlinear friction models. The dynamic model, analyzed and reduced to a set of base parameters through the Singular Value Decomposition, is derived starti...