CONTROLLABLE WORKSPACE OF CABLE-DRIVEN REDUNDANT PARALLEL MANIPULATORS BY FUNDAMENTAL WRENCH ANALYSIS

Abstract

Workspace analysis is always a crucial issue in robotic manipulator design. This paper introduces a set of newly defined fundamental wrenches that opens new horizons to physical interpretation of controllable workspace of a general cable-driven redundant parallel manipulator. Based on this set of fundamental wrenches, a novel tool is presented to determine configurations of cable-driven redundant parallel manipulator that belong to the controllable workspace. Analytical expressions of such workspace boundaries are obtained in an implicit form and a rigorous mathematical proof is provided for this method. Finally, the proposed method is implemented on a spatial cable-driven manipulator of interest.