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Mechanical Design and Kinematics Analysis of a Hydraulically Actuated Manipulator



Xuewen Rong1, Rui Song*, 1, Hui Chai1, Xiaolin Ma2
1 School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China
2 School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2014
Volume: 8
First Page: 457
Last Page: 461
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-457
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010457

Article History:

Received Date: 05/03/2014
Revision Received Date: 02/05/2014
Acceptance Date: 06/05/2014
Electronic publication date: 12/12/2014
Collection year: 2014

© 2014 Rong et al

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* Address correspondence to this author at the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China; Tel: 0086- 531-88396813; Fax: 0086-531-88396813; E-mail: rsong@sdu.edu.cn


Abstract

This paper gives a mechanism design of a six DOF hydraulically actuated manipulator firstly. Then its DH frames and link parameters are given. Next, its forward kinematic equations are derived according to homogeneous transformation method. Fourthly, the analytical solutions of its inverse kinematics are solved by given the position and posture of the end-effector simultaneously. The posture of the end-effector is given with three z-y-z Euler angles for they have obvious geometry meanings and are easy to be measured. In addition, the correctness of the inverse kinematic equations is verified in Simulink by comparing many sets of randomly produced joint variables in workspace and their corresponding inverse solutions.

Keywords: DH frame, DOF, Euler angle, homogeneous transformation, hydraulic, manipulator.