Design and experimental evaluation of a dynamically balanced redundant planar 4-RRR parallel manipulator

V Van Der Wijk, S Krut, F Pierrot… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Shaking forces and shaking moments in high-speed parallel manipulators are a significant
cause of base vibrations. These vibrations can be eliminated by designing the manipulator …

[HTML][HTML] The Grand 4R Four-Bar Based Inherently Balanced Linkage Architecture for synthesis of shaking force balanced and gravity force balanced mechanisms

V van Der Wijk - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
Considering balancing as starting point in the design of mechanisms and manipulators is
known as inherent balancing. Inherently balanced linkage architectures then form the basis …

Design and analysis of closed-chain principal vector linkages for dynamic balance with a new method for mass equivalent modeling

V van der Wijk - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2017 - Elsevier
For high-speed robotics dynamic (shaking) force and (shaking) moment balance are
important properties to obtain low base vibrations, high precision, and short cycle times, ao …

Evolutionary Semi-Vectorial Bilevel Optimization in the mechanical and control design of systems

A Rodríguez-Molina, JA Mejía-de-Dios… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many applications require mechanical systems to meet several performance specifications,
achieved through the suitable design of their mechanisms and controllers. The mechanical …

Shaking-moment balancing of mechanisms with principal vectors and momentum

V Van der Wijk - Frontiers of mechanical engineering, 2013 - Springer
The design of shaking-moment-balanced linkages still is challenging. Considering moment
balance in the very beginning of the design process of mechanisms is important for finding …

Closed-chain principal vector linkages

V Van der Wijk - New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science: From …, 2015 - Springer
For high-speed robotics dynamic balance is an important property for low base vibrations
and short cycle times. To consider dynamic balance in the beginning of the design process …

On the grand 4R four-bar based inherently balanced linkage architecture

V van der Wijk - New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science …, 2017 - Springer
Force balance is an important feature in high-speed machinery to move fast without base
vibrations and in large moving structures to move safely and with minimal effort …

On the Addition of Degrees of Freedom to Force-balanced Linkage

V Van der Wijk, JL Herder - Romansy 19–Robot Design, Dynamics and …, 2013 - Springer
The design of shaking-force balanced linkages can be approached by deriving these
linkages from balanced linkage architectures. When desired, a possible step is to add …

Mass equivalent pantographs for synthesis of balanced focal mechanisms

V van der Wijk - Advances in Robot Kinematics 2016, 2018 - Springer
Force balance is an important property in the design of high-speed high precision machinery
to reduce base vibrations and also for the design of inherently safe large movable structures …

Kinematically redundant parallel robots for high performance applications

N Baron - 2021 - sussex.figshare.com
This thesis addresses the development of kinematically redundant parallel robots for high
performance applications and methods of kinematic analyses tailored towards them. Parallel …