Structural Synthesis of Self-Aligning Gears of Industrial Robots With Parallel Kinematics

Abstract

The aim of this work is an analysis of excess ties in handler closed kinematics and development of the structural synthesis procedure for self-aligning gears of industrial robots with parallel kinematics. The design of a structure flowchart of a gear without excess ties in the procedure offered is carried out by means of prototype mechanism updating and includes the following stages: the reveal and analysis of excess ties, excess ties elimination, correctness checkup of excess ties elimination. For the excess ties analysis and solution check-up a structural analysis is carried out. At that a handler is presented as a hierarchal structure described by some structural models. The ways for excess ties elimination: the substitution of one kinematic pair for another one with a higher number of mobility; the introduction of an additional link and one kinematic pair into a kinematics; the elimination from the kinematics an extra link with two kinematic pairs; the substitution in the kinematics a flat hinge parallelogram for a forward pair. There are developed some versions of structural diagrams of self-aligning handlers on the basis of an ortho- glide gear. The procedure offered allows defining the number and a type of excess ties in the kinematics of a gear, eliminating excess ties and forming structural diagrams of self-aligning gears with the conservation of basic operating properties on the alternative basis. The application of structural diagrams of handlers without contour excess ties is one of the ways to increase reliability and manufacturability of designs of industrial robots with parallel kinematics.