This paper gives a brief description of some novel lower-mobility parallel mechanisms developed in our recent research, including two 4-DOF (degrees-of-freedom) parallel mechanisms and two 5-DOF parallel mechanisms. The two 4-DOF parallel mechanisms can perform three dimensional rotations and one translation. The two 5-DOF parallel mechanism can perform three dimensional rotations and two translations. All of these novel parallel mechanisms have symmetrical mechanical structures.

Volume Subject Area:
Mechanisms and Robotics
Topics:
Mechanical admittance, Parallel mechanisms, Degrees of freedom, Mechanical structures, Symmetry (Physics)
This content is only available via PDF.
Copyright © 2002
 by ASME
You do not currently have access to this content.