Joint torque reduction of a three dimensional redundant planar manipulator

Yahya, S. and Moghavvemi, M. and Almurib, H.A.F. (2012) Joint torque reduction of a three dimensional redundant planar manipulator. Sensors (Switzerland), 12 (6). pp. 6869-6892. ISSN 14248220, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/s120606869.

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Abstract

Research on joint torque reduction in robot manipulators has received considerable attention in recent years. Minimizing the computational complexity of torque optimization and the ability to calculate the magnitude of the joint torque accurately will result in a safe operation without overloading the joint actuators. This paper presents a mechanical design for a three dimensional planar redundant manipulator with the advantage of the reduction in the number of motors needed to control the joint angle, leading to a decrease in the weight of the manipulator. Many efforts have been focused on decreasing the weight of manipulators, such as using lightweight joints design or setting the actuators at the base of the manipulator and using tendons for the transmission of power to these joints. By using the design of this paper, only three motors are needed to control any n degrees of freedom in a three dimensional planar redundant manipulator instead of n motors. Therefore this design is very effective to decrease the weight of the manipulator as well as the number of motors needed to control the manipulator. In this paper, the torque of all the joints are calculated for the proposed manipulator (with three motors) and the conventional three dimensional planar manipulator (with one motor for each degree of freedom) to show the effectiveness of the proposed manipulator for decreasing the weight of the manipulator and minimizing driving joint torques.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords: Dynamics; Joint torques reduction; Redundant manipulator; Robot; Rotary encoders
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User: Ms. Norhamizah Tamizi
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2014 09:09
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2017 03:33
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/9739

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