Shoichiro Kamada

Kinematic Analysis of a 4-DOF Parallel Mechanism with Large Translational and Orientational Workspace

This paper introduces a novel four-degree-of-freedom (4-DOF) parallel mechanism having 3 translational DOFs and 1 rotational DOF. The mechanism comprises 2 sets of parallelogram linkages, which constrain two of the rotational DOFs of the mechanism. An interesting feature of the mechanism is that it…