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Flexible fixturing system design based on a family of novel parallel robots

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Abstract

Flexibility of the assembly system is crucial to the rapidly changing market, for that a family of products fabrication need to be implemented on a single production line. This paper presents a novel flexible fixturing system for sheet metal part assembly, the system is composed of reconfigurable fixtures use parallel robots as programmable fixture elements so that they can be reprogrammed for different parts. According to the fixturing requirement a work of synthesis and derivation of parallel robot configuration is conducted based on screw theory and Lie group. And a novel class of parallel fixture robots composed of a family of RUPU kinematic chains (KCs) and their derived configurations, with 3̃6 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF), are proposed. Finally an application with "4-2-1" fixturing scheme is exhibited, the kinematic and constraint features are modelled by screw theory, and a screw optimum layout scheme is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1304-1309
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1901725537, 9781424426799
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 21 Feb 200926 Feb 2009

Publication series

Name2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Conference

Conference1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 1999
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period21/02/0926/02/09

Keywords

  • Flexible fixturing system
  • Lie group
  • Parallel robot
  • Reconfigurable fixture
  • Screw theory

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