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Compliant Serial 3R Chain with Spherical Flexures

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Advances in Robot Kinematics 2016

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A spherical flexure is a special kind of compliant hinge specifically conceived for spherical motion. It features an arc of a circle as centroidal axis and an annulus sector as cross-section, circle and annulus having a common center coinciding to that of the desired spherical motion. This paper investigates a compliant spherical 3R open chain that is obtained by the in-series connection of three identical spherical flexures having coincident centers and mutually orthogonal axes of maximum rotational compliance. The considered spherical chain is intended to be used as a complex flexure for the development of spatial parallel manipulators. The compliance matrix of the proposed chain is first determined via an analytical procedure. Then, the obtained equations are used in a parametric study to assess the influence of spherical flexure geometry on the overall stiffness performances of the considered 3R open chain.

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    Farid Parvari Rad, Rocco Vertechy & Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli

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Parvari Rad, F., Vertechy, R., Berselli, G., Parenti-Castelli, V. (2018). Compliant Serial 3R Chain with Spherical Flexures. In: Lenarčič, J., Merlet, JP. (eds) Advances in Robot Kinematics 2016. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56802-7_2

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