A CLOSED-FORM DYNAMICS OF A NOVEL FULLY WRIST DRIVEN BY REVOLUTE MOTORS

This paper proposes a systematic methodology to obtain a closed-form formulation for dynamics analysis of a novel spherical robot that is called a 3(RPSP)-S parallel manipulator. The proposed manipulator provides high rotational displacement of the moving platform for low angular displacement of the motors. The advised robot is suitable for repetitive oscillatory applications (for example, wrist and ankle rehabilitation and table of autopilot and gyroscope life test, etc.). First, we describe the structure of the proposed manipulator and solve the inverse kinematics problem of the manipulator. Next, based on the principle of virtual work, a methodology for deriving the dynamical equations of motion is developed. The elaborated approach shows that the inverse dynamics of the manipulator can be reduced to solving a system of three linear equations in three unknowns. Finally, a computational algorithm to solve the inverse dynamics of the manipulator is advised and several trajectories of the moving platform are simulated and verified by a special dynamics modeling commercial software (MSC ADAMS).