Kinematic study on Motoman HP6 arc welding robot based on Unigraphics

Abstract

The links of Motoman HP6 arc welding robot are considered as an open kinematic chain which consists of a series of rotational joints through concatenation. One end of the open chain is fixed to the base or the earth, and the other end which is free fastens the end executor to complete various duties. Each link of this arc welding robot has four kinds of Denavit-Hartenberg parameters: common normal length between two adjacent links, angle of two adjacent joints, distance between the crossing of common normal length and two joints axes, and angle of two adjacent links. The displacement relation between each link of the Motoman HP6 arc welding robot is introduced, and the kinematic positive-going solution and the kinematic passive-going solution are calculated.

Keywords

arc welding robot / link / Denavit-Hartenberg parameter / kinematic positive-going solution / kinematic passive-going solution / off-line programming

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