Verhoeven, R.; Hiller, Manfred:
Estimating the controllable workspace of tendon based stewart platforms
In: Proceeding of the ARK´00:7th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2000 - University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Chair of Mechatronics Lotharstraße 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany, 2000, pp. 277 - 284
2000book article/chapter in collection
Mechanical Engineering
Title:
Estimating the controllable workspace of tendon based stewart platforms
Author:
Verhoeven, R.;Hiller, ManfredUDE
LSF ID
1048
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Appears in
Proceeding of the ARK´00:7th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2000
Place of publication:
University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Chair of Mechatronics Lotharstraße 1, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Year of publication:
2000
in:
pp. 277 - 284

Abstract:

The controllable workspace of a tendon-based Stewart Platform is the set of postures where forces ans torques at the end-effector can be controlled. A necassary and sufficent condition is given for those postures where forces can be controlled; thus, a superset of the controllable workspace can be calculated easily. External forces are modeled as an additional tendon fixed at infinity by introducing an unusual compactification of Rn that contains one infinitely distant point for each direction.