O mecanismo 3-RPS é um mecanismo paralelo que possui três graus de liberdade: rolagem, arfagem e elevação. Tem vantagem em relação ao custo em comparação com o manipulador Plataforma de Stewart em aplicações onde não são necessários seis graus de liberdade e, por ser um mecanismo paralelo, possui maior relação peso/capacidade de carga que robôs seriais. No presente trabalho, um estudo é realizado para a concepção de um robô do tipo 3-RPS. O estudo aborda a cinemática, a dinâmica e estratégia de controle para o robô. Um controle por torque computado é aplicado a um modelo virtual em ambiente CAD em escala 1:1 desenvolvido com o intuito de testar a estratégia de controle elaborada a partir da realização de simulações computacionais do sistema por completo. Ao todo foram realizadas sete simulações para diferentes condições de trajetórias desejadas. No Caso I executou-se primeiramente um sistema idealizado onde o erro de regime tendeu a zero para um comportamento subamortecido. Os ganhos calculados no Caso I idealizado foram aplicados então no Caso I com o modelo virtual onde verificou-se que os ganhos calculados não foram suficientes para garantir a trajetória desejada do robô. Com os ganhos aumentados em cem vezes, verificou-se que o erro de regime ficou na ordem de 0,22 mm, sendo o valor considerado aceitável. Nas simulações subsequentes, o erro de regime nos Casos II e III foram também de 0,22 mm e nos Casos IV, V, VI e VII o erro máximo de trajetória não ultrapassou os 0,22 mm estipulados. / The 3-RPS mechanism is a parallel mechanism that has three degrees of freedom: roll, pitch and heave. It has a cost advantage compared to the Stewart Platform manipulator in applications where six degrees of freedom are not required and, because it is a parallel mechanism, has a higher weight / load ratio than serial robots. In the present work, a study is carried out for the design of a 3-RPS robot. The study addresses the kinematics, dynamics and control strategy for the robot. A computed torque control is applied to a 1:1 scale virtual CAD model developed with the purpose of testing the control strategy elaborated from the computational simulations of the entire system. Seven simulations were performed for different conditions of desired trajectories. In Case I, an idealized system was first run where the regime error tended to zero for an underdamped behavior. The calculated gains in Case I idealized were then applied in Case I with the virtual model where it was verified that the calculated gains were not enough to guarantee the desired trajectory of the robot. With gains increased by one hundred times, it was found that the regime error was 0.22 mm, and the value was considered acceptable. In the subsequent simulations, the regime error in Cases II and III were also 0.22 mm and in Cases IV, V, VI and VII the maximum error of trajectory did not exceed the stipulated 0.22 mm.

O mecanismo 3-RPS é um mecanismo paralelo que possui três graus de liberdade: rolagem, arfagem e elevação. Tem vantagem em relação ao custo em comparação com o manipulador Plataforma de Stewart em aplicações onde não são necessários seis graus de liberdade e, por ser um mecanismo paralelo, possui maior relação peso/capacidade de carga que robôs seriais. No presente trabalho, um estudo é realizado para a concepção de um robô do tipo 3-RPS. O estudo aborda a cinemática, a dinâmica e estratégia de controle para o robô. Um controle por torque computado é aplicado a um modelo virtual em ambiente CAD em escala 1:1 desenvolvido com o intuito de testar a estratégia de controle elaborada a partir da realização de simulações computacionais do sistema por completo. Ao todo foram realizadas sete simulações para diferentes condições de trajetórias desejadas. No Caso I executou-se primeiramente um sistema idealizado onde o erro de regime tendeu a zero para um comportamento subamortecido. Os ganhos calculados no Caso I idealizado foram aplicados então no Caso I com o modelo virtual onde verificou-se que os ganhos calculados não foram suficientes para garantir a trajetória desejada do robô. Com os ganhos aumentados em cem vezes, verificou-se que o erro de regime ficou na ordem de 0,22 mm, sendo o valor considerado aceitável. Nas simulações subsequentes, o erro de regime nos Casos II e III foram também de 0,22 mm e nos Casos IV, V, VI e VII o erro máximo de trajetória não ultrapassou os 0,22 mm estipulados. / The 3-RPS mechanism is a parallel mechanism that has three degrees of freedom: roll, pitch and heave. It has a cost advantage compared to the Stewart Platform manipulator in applications where six degrees of freedom are not required and, because it is a parallel mechanism, has a higher weight / load ratio than serial robots. In the present work, a study is carried out for the design of a 3-RPS robot. The study addresses the kinematics, dynamics and control strategy for the robot. A computed torque control is applied to a 1:1 scale virtual CAD model developed with the purpose of testing the control strategy elaborated from the computational simulations of the entire system. Seven simulations were performed for different conditions of desired trajectories. In Case I, an idealized system was first run where the regime error tended to zero for an underdamped behavior. The calculated gains in Case I idealized were then applied in Case I with the virtual model where it was verified that the calculated gains were not enough to guarantee the desired trajectory of the robot. With gains increased by one hundred times, it was found that the regime error was 0.22 mm, and the value was considered acceptable. In the subsequent simulations, the regime error in Cases II and III were also 0.22 mm and in Cases IV, V, VI and VII the maximum error of trajectory did not exceed the stipulated 0.22 mm.

Manipuladores paralelos apresentam inércia reduzida, o que lhes permite alcançar altas acelerações e melhor eficiência energética. Porém, frequentemente seu espaço de trabalho possui desempenho pouco uniforme. De fato, a presença de singularidades paralelas é um forte limitante para essa arquitetura robótica. A redundância de atuação já é conhecida como uma alternativa para essa questão. Enquanto que a redundância cinemática ainda não possui consequências claras. Um manipulador com esse tipo de redundância apresenta um número de graus de liberdade do end-effector menor que o número de graus de liberdade do mecanismo como um todo. Considerando essa lacuna, o objetivo desse mestrado é analisar a influência da redundância cinemática no desempenho de manipuladores paralelos através de simulações e testes experimentais. Tal estudo não é trivial, uma vez que com o maior número de atuadores e graus de liberdade, é adicionada também inércia ao sistema. Foram definidas métricas para avaliar o quão favorável é uma dada posição e, com elas, estratégias de resolução de redundância foram analisadas. A estratégia principal proposta se compõe por duas etapas. No primeiro passo, é definida uma movimentação na qual a posição a cada instante é ótima segundo uma dada métrica de desempenho multiobjetivo. Isso resulta em um movimento de referência que em geral possui altas acelerações. Na segunda etapa, aplica-se uma otimização global, procurando manter um compromisso de proximidade com o movimento de referência e com os níveis de aceleração. Além deste, foram aplicados diversos métodos de otimização local (onde a cinemática inversa é resolvida para cada instante isoladamente) e uma estratégia global truncada. Essas opções foram comparadas numericamente e experimentalmente, trazendo uma resposta objetiva da influência da redundância cinemática no manipulador paralelo. A campanha experimental foi realizada em uma protótipo construído no Laboratório de Dinâmica da Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos. Esse protótipo consiste em um manipulador paralelo planar com 6 graus de liberdade, tendo assim, até 3 graus de redundância para a movimentação no plano. Têm-se 6 motores rotativos para atuá-los, sendo 3 deles acoplados a guias lineares com fusos para obtenção de atuação linear. O acionamento ou não destas guias define o grau de redundância do sistema, garantindo a versatilidade do protótipo. / As a consequence of their reduced inertia, parallel manipulators present superior energetic efficiency and they are able to reach high accelerations. Nevertheless, their workspace has a poorly uniform performance. Indeed, the presence of parallel singularities is a strong limitant for this kind of robots. On the one hand, actuation redundancy is well-known as a good choice in an effort to solve this issue. On the other hand, kinematic redundancy still have unclear consequences on this matter. A kinematically redundant manipulator presents an end-effector with fewer degrees of freedom than the mechanism as a whole. Considering this gap, the objective of this research is to analyze the influence of kinematic redundancy on the performance of parallel manipulators through simulations and experimental tests. This issue turns out to be complex, once traveling actuators sum additional inertia to the system. Metrics are defined in order to evaluate how favourable is a given position, and redundancy resolution strategies are analyzed using them. The main proposed strategy is composed of two steps. In the first one, a movement is defined so that the position for each instant is optimum for a given multiobjective performance metric. This procedure delivers a refererence movement which generally presents high accelerations. On the second step, a global optimization is applied, seeking for a trade-off between the proximity to the reference and the acceleration levels. In addition, several local methods (which resolve the inverse kinematics for each instant independently) and one truncated global strategy were addressed. These configurations were compared numerically and experimentally, delivering a objective analysis of the influence of kinematic redundancy on the performance of the parallel manipulator. The experimental campaign was executed with a physical prototype built at the São Carlos School of Engineering. This is a planar manipulator with 6 degrees of freedom, consequently presenting up to 3 degrees of redundancy. The mechanism is actuated by 6 rotating motors, of which 3 are coupled to leadscrews, resulting in linear actuators. These leadscrews can be locked, defining different degrees of redundancy and granting the versatility of the prototype.

Há mais de uma década os robôs paralelos têm atraído a atenção das comunidades acadêmica e industrial devido às suas vantagens potenciais sobre as arquiteturas predominantes - as seriais. Dentre estas vantagens, pode-se citar a leveza, as elevadas velocidades e acelerações e a capacidade de carga. A aplicação industrial mais promissora para estas arquiteturas alternativas de robôs são as operações \"pega-e-põe\", necessárias nas indústrias alimentícia, farmacêutica e de componentes eletrônicos. Neste trabalho apresenta-se um robô paralelo, concebido com a finalidade de realizar operações \"pega-e-põe\" no espaço bidimensional (plano). O objetivo principal é a análise dinâmica deste mecanismo, empregando o método de Kane, para a determinação dos torques dos atuadores e das forças de reação, causados pelo efeito dinâmico de sua movimentação, quando a garra esteja sujeita a esforços externos e realizando uma trajetória retilínea ou circular em movimento uniforme ou uniformemente variado. Para tanto, desenvolveu-se nesta dissertação a análise cinemática do robô, um estudo de possíveis trajetórias para a garra, o levantamento do espaço de trabalho, bem como a análise dinâmica correspondente. Incluiu-se também diversas simulações para caracterizar melhor suas propriedades. / For over a decade parallel robots have attracted the interest from academic and industrial communities due to their potential advantages over the predominant serial architecture. Among these advantages are the lighter weight and higher speeds, accelerations, and load capacity. The most promising industrial application for these alternative architectures are the pick-and-place operations, which are needed in food, pharmaceutical and electronics industries. We show here a parallel robot designed to perform pick-and-place operations in two dimensions , i.e., on a plane. The main goal is the dynamical analysis of this mechanism by means of the Kane method. We determine the torques of the actuators and the reaction forces caused by the dynamical effects of its movement, when its end-effector is subject to external load. The cases of uniform and accelerated movements, with either straight or circular trajectory, are considered. Therefore, in this dissertation we present the kinematics analysis of the robot, an analysis of possible end-effector trajectories, the workspace development, and the corresponding dynamical analysis. A few simulations are also included to better describe its properties.

A Stewart Platform robot was designed, constructed, and programmed for use in Cal Poly’s ME 423 Robotics: Fundamentals and Applications laboratory section. A Stewart Platform is a parallel manipulator robot with six prismatic joints that has six degrees of freedom, able to be defined in both position and orientation. Its purpose is to supplement parallel robot material covered in lecture. Learning objectives include applying and verifying the Stewart Platform inverse kinematics and investigating the Stewart Platform’s operation, range of motion, and limitations. The Stewart Platform geometry and inverse kinematics were modeled and animated using MATLAB. The platform was then built using linear actuators, magnetic spherical bearings, and acrylic plates. Control of the Stewart Platform is achieved using an Arduino Due and a custom HexaMoto shield. Users interact with the system using a GUI created with MATLAB’s App Designer.

L’objectif de cette thèse est de développer de nouveaux robots qui combinent dextérité, compacité et précision afin de réaliser des tâches de micromanipulation complexes dans des environnements confinés. Ainsi, deux architectures robotiques parallèles ont été développées. La première est un poignet à 4 degrés de liberté (DDL) en rotation et la seconde est un robot redondant à 7 DDL. Les deux structures intègrent la fonction de préhension grâce à une plateforme configurable et un actionnement déporté. L’étude géométrique et cinématique des deux robots ainsi que des résultats expérimentaux validant les deux architectures sont présentés. Pour miniaturiser le robot à 7 DDL, les liaisons mécaniques (rotules) ont été remplacées par des liaisons en élastomère (PDMS). Cette solution permet, entre autres, d’éliminer les jeux mécaniques au niveau des articulations tout en gardant une grande plage de déplacement. Cependant, comme le comportement de telles articulations ne correspond pas parfaitement à des liaisons rotules, un modèle de robot prenant en compte le comportement élastique de ces articulations a été développé. Afin de réaliser la structure à l’échelle désirée (jambes et liaisons à 400 µm de côté), un nouveau processus de micro-fabrication en salle blanche a été développé. Contrairement aux méthodes existantes, le nouveau processus permet de réduire le nombre d’étapes de gravure et d’intégrer différents types d’élastomères à des microstructures robotiques en silicium. Enfin, le micro-robot a été réalisé et les capacités de déplacement dans les 6 DDL en plus de la préhension ont été validées. Les applications visées des robots développées dans cette thèse sont le micro/nano-assemblage, la manipulation de cellules biologiques et la chirurgie mini-invasive, notamment en neurochirurgie. / The objective of this thesis is the development of new robots that combine dexterity, compactness and precision to perform complex micromanipulation tasks in confined environments. Thus, two parallel robotic structures have been developed. The first is a wrist that can insure 4 degrees of freedom (DOF) in rotation and the second is a redundant robot with 7 DOF. Both structures integrate the grasping function thanks to a configurable platform and a deported actuation. The kinematic study of the two robots and the experimental results validating the two architectures are presented. To miniaturize the 7 DOF robot, the mechanical joints (spherical) have been replaced by elastomeric articulations (PDMS). This solution allows, among others, to eliminate the mechanical backlash in the joints while keeping a large range of movements. However, as the behavior of such joints does not correspond perfectly to spherical joints, a model for the robot taking into account the elastic behavior of these joints has been developed. In order to made the structure on the desired scale (the cross sectional side of its legs and connections are 400 µm), a new microfabrication process in the clean room has been developed. Unlike the existing methods, the new process reduces the number of etching steps and allow the integration of different types of elastomers into silicon robotic microstructures. Finally, the micro-robot was realized and the displacement capacities in the 6 DOF with the grasping were validated. The targeted applications by the developed robots in this thesis are micro / nano-assembly, manipulation of biological cells and minimally invasive surgery, particularly in neurosurgery.

In poultry plants in the United States, a water chiller is used to chill WOGs (de-feathered birds without giblets). After exiting the chiller these birds are manually transferred from a conveyor belt to shackles for further processing. The current process is less than ideal. The labor pool for jobs such as these is continuing to shrink and labor turnover is a constant problem. The rates of repetitive motion injury reported are high and are continuing to rise. In addition, many poultry producers see this as a bottleneck in the process. Automation has the potential to alleviate these problems. The high variability of this task, cost restrictions, and special design considerations associated with meat handling equipment make automation of this task challenging. Industrial robots have traditionally been limited to tasks with low variability. This task has high variability. They are presented on the conveyor belt in a wide variety of positions and orientations. Most robotic automation systems consist of a commercially available industrial robot, a specialized end effector and a control scheme. The economics of this task prohibit the use of a commercially available industrial robot, as there are no industrial robots on the market that will offer a short enough payback. Robots have not yet been adapted to meat handling processes, and existing robotic designs are not well suited to the task. In designing a low cost, high-speed robot for poultry processing the requirements of the robot are defined and a variety of robot architectures, constructions, and materials are explored. Simple modifications to the existing shackle and conveyor setup to make the task easier for a robot are also explored. After the robot requirements are defined a large group of possible designs are developed. The possible designs are systematically evaluated and/or eliminated until a single design is selected. The forward and reverse kinematics for this robot are developed. A singularity analysis is carried out. A proof of concept model is built. A prototype is modeled and a dynamic analysis of that prototype is carried out. The design is finalized based on the results of the dynamic analysis.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:25:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CLODOALDO SCHUTEL FURTADO NETO.pdf: 8051100 bytes, checksum: 8087fda1ce7bcc1fb1f0f63da1457107 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina construiu um simulador de vôo de baseado robô paralelo axissimétrico com 6 DoF (graus de liberdade) que incorpora ambiente de realidade virtual de imersão. Este simulador de vôo apresenta cadeia cinemática 6-RUS que é a segunda arquitetura mais comum para esta aplicação. Robôs paralelos são mecanismos de cadeia fechada que apresentam bom desempenho em termos de precisão, rigidez e capacidade para manipular grandes cargas. Este trabalho tem como objetivo otimizar um robô paralelo 6- RUS para determinar os melhores localizações das juntas ativas ( posição e orientação ) para uma tarefa de simulação de vôo usando um algoritmo PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) para escapar de mínimos locais e um algoritmo de Ponto Interior para acelerar a procurar pelo ótimo na região indicada por PSO ou seja o algoritmo de Ponto Interior trabalha para encontrar fundo do vale indicado pelo PSO. / The Santa Catarina State University built a flight simulator based on 6-DoF axisymmetric parallel robot which incorporates virtual reality immersion environment. This flight simulator presents 6-RUS kinematic chain which is the second most common architecture for this application. Hunt proposed this chain architecture early in 1983. Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms that present good performance in terms of accuracy, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. This work aims to optimize a 6- RUS parallel robot to determine the optimal active joints locations (position and orientation) for a flight simulation task using a PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm to escape from local minima and an Interior Point algorithm to accelerate the search for the optimum in the region indicated by PSO i.e. Interior Point algorithm work to find bottom of the valley indicated by PSO.

Le travail mené dans cette thèse est une contribution au développement mécatronique d'interfaces haptiques pour un système de télé-opération dédié aux applications médicales du type chirurgie mini-invasive. Dans un premier temps, nous avons mené une évaluation d'une interface « maître » existante, ayant une architecture parallèle sphérique et développée au sein de l'équipe robotique de l'Institut PPRIME. Cette évaluation a montré la présence de singularités, en particulier des singularités parallèles, à l'intérieur de l'espace du travail de l'interface. La présence de singularités altère le comportement cinématique en amplifiant les erreurs de résolution du modèle géométrique direct d'une part et les couples actionneurs lors du retour d'effort d'autre part. Dans un deuxième temps, différentes approches ont été proposées pour résoudre les problèmes liés à la présence des singularités. La première approche a consisté à utiliser la redondance de capteurs et la redondance d'actionneurs pour palier à ces effets dans la structure existante. Dans la seconde approche, nous avons proposé une nouvelle architecture mécanique optimale qui élimine les singularités présentent dans l'espace de travail. Les résultats obtenus, avec cette nouvelle structure à travers les essais expérimentaux réalisés sur le prototype, sont conformes aux objectifs fixés. Les deux interfaces haptiques ont été utilisées pour contrôler avec succès un robot dédié à la chirurgie mini-invasive. Le comportement du système global « robot esclave interface haptique » ouvre des perspectives prometteuses aussi bien pour de futures études scientifiques que pour un transfert industriel. / A contribution for a development of haptic devices for tele-operation system is presented in this thesis. This device is dedicated for medical applications such as minimally invasive surgery tasks. In one first step, an evaluation of the existing master device is carried out. This device has a spherical parallel architecture and has been developed within the robotics team of PPRIME Institute. The evaluation of this device has shown the presence of parallel singularities located in its workspace. This singularity alters the kinematic behavior of the structure by amplifying the errors in solving the forward kinematics and amplifying the actuator torques for the haptic feedback. In a second step, different approaches have been proposed to solve the problems related to the presence of the singularities. The first approach consists in using redundancy of sensors and actuators for the existing structure in order to overcome the effects of singularities. In the second approach, we have proposed a new optimal mechanical architecture that eliminates the singularity. The results obtained with this new structure through the experimental testing of the prototype, are in accordance with the expected ones. The two haptic devices have been used to successfully control a robot dedicated to minimally invasive surgery. The behavior of the overall system "robot and haptic device" opens up promising prospects for future studies as well as for industrial transfer.

Les Robots Parallèles à Câbles sont des robots possédant un effecteur relié à une base uniquement à l’aide de câbles, dont il est possible de modifier la longueur. Ils sont ainsi légers, capables de grandes dynamiques et peuvent présenter un énorme espace de travail.Mais ils sont sujets à des vibrations de grande amplitude et basse fréquence à cause de leur rigidité très faible. Cette thèse propose une approche originale d'amortissement actif pour atténuer efficacement ces vibrations. Le modèle dynamique du robot à câbles embarquant des roues à inertie est calculé, linéarisé autour d'un point d'équilibre et projeté dans l'espace modal dans lequel les vibrations sont découplées. Une commande par placement de pôles adapté à la fréquence naturelle de vibrations est appliquée pour chaque mode. Les résultats sur une simulation et deux prototypes sont présentés pour valider cette approche. / Cable-driven parallel robots use cables only to connect a fixed base to a mobile end-effector. Robot motion is obtained by winding the cables around pulleys to alter their length. Thus, cable-driven parallel robots are lightweight, can achieve very high dynamics and exhibit a very large workspace.Therefore, they are subject tp high magnitude and low frequency vibrations, because of their very low end-effector stiffness.This thesis proposes a novel approach for effective active damping of those vibrations.The dynamical model of a cable-driven parallel robot embedding reaction wheels is derived, lineraized around an equilibrium point and projected onto modal space, in which vibrations are decoupled.For each vibration mode, a control algorithm designed by poles placement adapted to the associated vibration natural frequency is applied for active vibration damping.Experiments conducted on a realistic simulation and two prototypes are presented to validate this approach.