TY - GEN
T1 - Conceptual design, performance visualization and dimension improvement of a flexure parallel manipulator
AU - Gao, Zhen
AU - Zhang, Dan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper presents a novel three degrees of freedom parallel manipulator based on flexure structure. There are three limbs connected with a moving stage and a fixed platform. Each limb is configured with a multilayer elastic driven mechanism and four flexure hinges. The kinematics model and Jacobian matrix is derived. Dexterity and workspace as two of the most important performance indices are investigated and visualized. Finite element analysis is conducted to observe the various behaviours including deformation, strain and frequency response under different inputs of piezo actuators. Both of the single objective optimization and multi-objective optimization are implemented to seek the optimal performance with the adjustment of dimensional parameters.
AB - This paper presents a novel three degrees of freedom parallel manipulator based on flexure structure. There are three limbs connected with a moving stage and a fixed platform. Each limb is configured with a multilayer elastic driven mechanism and four flexure hinges. The kinematics model and Jacobian matrix is derived. Dexterity and workspace as two of the most important performance indices are investigated and visualized. Finite element analysis is conducted to observe the various behaviours including deformation, strain and frequency response under different inputs of piezo actuators. Both of the single objective optimization and multi-objective optimization are implemented to seek the optimal performance with the adjustment of dimensional parameters.
KW - evolutionary algorithm
KW - multi-objective optimization
KW - Parallel manipulator
KW - performances indices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906550112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCA.2014.6870930
DO - 10.1109/ICCA.2014.6870930
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:84906550112
SN - 9781479928378
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA
SP - 261
EP - 266
BT - 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, IEEE ICCA 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 11th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, IEEE ICCA 2014
Y2 - 18 June 2014 through 20 June 2014
ER -