IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA)
Vol 6, No 4: December 2017

On the Design of a 4 Degrees-of-freedom Pick and Place Cable Suspended Parallel Manipulator

F. J. Castillo-Garcia (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
P. Rea (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)
A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
E. Ottaviano (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2017

Abstract

This paper proposes the design and control strategy for a four degrees-of-freedom spatial cable-suspended parallel robot for pick and place operations. Pick and place is a repetitive task requiring payload changes for the movement to pick-up the object, and the movement to the nal pose to release the manipulated object. In this paper, a new robust control strategy has been proposed, together with proper trajectories for the required operation. The control strategy consists on the system decoupling and linearization by means of a feedforward term and a cascade PD controller. The main advantage of the proposed solution is that its design can be scalable in size spanning from centimeters to meters with a relatively good positioning accuracy. Finally, simulations are reported to show the overall performances of the proposed con guration for pick and place operations with a medium size manipulator.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJRA

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Subject

Automotive Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Robots are becoming part of people's everyday social lives and will increasingly become so. In future years, robots may become caretaker assistants for the elderly, or academic tutors for our children, or medical assistants, day care assistants, or psychological counselors. Robots may become our ...