3 accepted papers
More than thirty years after the initial concepts, commercial Delta and Delta-like robots serve a niche market for high-speed pick-and-place applications. Expired patents and new fields of application have led to increased research and innovative designs. By functionally extending the original trans
Future production systems must meet the continual demands for improved productivity and energy efficiency. Being flexible and adaptable, reconfigurable systems offer great opportunities to face these challenges. Against this background, this letter is concerned with the reconfiguration planning of D
Spatial object manipulation is typically accomplished by parallel kinematic manipulators (PKM), whose number of actuators is equal to the required number of degrees of freedom. In order to improve the performance and reliability of PKM, their basic configuration can be extended by redundant actuator