1. Analysis of Degree of Freedom of 4-SPxyzS/S Parallel Mechanism of the Imitation of Human Wrist
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Xiao Ping Hu, Hai Xiang Wang, Cai Hua Li, Ke Jiang Zang, and Wan Shun Zang
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Engineering ,business.industry ,Work (physics) ,General Engineering ,Degrees of freedom (statistics) ,Kinematics ,Wrist ,Computer Science::Robotics ,Mechanism (engineering) ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Control theory ,Theory of constraints ,medicine ,Imitation (music) ,business ,Muscle group ,Simulation - Abstract
The human wrist has three rotational DOFs. Elbow muscle group work together to drive the wrist joint. According to the above characteristics of human wrist, parallel mechanism with three rotational DOFs of the imitation of human wrist is built. Traditional method for calculating DOF based on arithmetic is not that accurate. The method for analysis of DOF based on theory of constraint screw is explained. According to theory of constraint screw, the parallel mechanism built was analyzed. All the kinematic pairs in the mechanism will be expressed with screws so that the common constraints and the over constraints will be obtained. Through analysis above, the DOFs of the mechanism can be calculated and which a few degrees of freedom of the mechanism will be known. The new method avoids the disadvantages of the traditional method.
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- 2014
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