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Analysis of Compliance and Kinetostatic of a Novel Class of n-4R Compliant Parallel Micro Pointing Mechanism
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China.
Abstract:
A novel class of n-4R compliant parallel pointing mechanisms is proposed, and the compliance and kinetostatic model of the mechanism are established and analyzed successively. Firstly, the compliance model of a class of n-4R compliant parallel pointing mechanism is established based on the coordinate transformation. The model is verified by finite element analysis, and the influence of geometric parameter variations on the compliance performance of the mechanism is analyzed. Secondly, the mechanism is simplified to an equivalent spring system, and the governing equation of the equivalent spring system is constructed by utilizing the established compliance model. According to the governing equation, the mapping relationship between the input force and the output displacement of the mechanism is subsequently obtained, that is, the kinetostatic model. Then, the accuracy of the kinetostatic model is verified by two simulation examples: The spiral trajectory of the mobile platform center and the spatial pointing trajectory of the mechanism. The results of the two examples show that the deviations between the analytical results and the FE-results are within 0.038% and 0.857%, with the excellent consistency indicating the accuracy of the kinetostatic model. Finally, the influence of the geometric parameter values on the mapping matrix in the kinetostatic model is studied.
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