RESEARCH ARTICLE

Evaluation of the power consumption of a high-speed parallel robot

  • Gang HAN 1 ,
  • Fugui XIE , 1,2 ,
  • Xin-Jun LIU , 1,2
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  • 1. The State Key Laboratory of Tribology & Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Precision/Ultra-precision Manufacturing Equipments and Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received date: 26 Jan 2017

Accepted date: 28 Mar 2017

Published date: 16 Mar 2018

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2017 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

An inverse dynamic model of a high-speed parallel robot is established based on the virtual work principle. With this dynamic model, a new evaluation method is proposed to measure the power consumption of the robot during pick-and-place tasks. The power vector is extended in this method and used to represent the collinear velocity and acceleration of the moving platform. Afterward, several dynamic performance indices, which are homogenous and possess obvious physical meanings, are proposed. These indices can evaluate the power input and output transmissibility of the robot in a workspace. The distributions of the power input and output transmissibility of the high-speed parallel robot are derived with these indices and clearly illustrated in atlases. Furtherly, a low-power-consumption workspace is selected for the robot.

Cite this article

Gang HAN , Fugui XIE , Xin-Jun LIU . Evaluation of the power consumption of a high-speed parallel robot[J]. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2018 , 13(2) : 167 -178 . DOI: 10.1007/s11465-017-0456-8

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51425501), and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Grant No. Z171100000817007). The second author wishes to acknowledge the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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