The kinematotropic 3-CPU parallel robots

A parallel kinematics machine, or PKM, is a mechanism whose structure is usually made of a moving platform connected to a fixed base through a multitude of legs. In recent years, PKMs have attracted the growing attention of both the academic and industrial communities due to their potential applications. Indeed, if compared to serial mechanisms, PKMs own several advantages in terms of dynamics, accuracy and stiffness. These aspects motivated researchers to develop new kinematics architectures specialized to the realization of a limited number of tasks. The main objective of the research presented in this work, is to investigate the possibility to realize a reconfigurable multi-purpose parallel manipulator based on the 3-CPU joints architecture.

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Luca Carbonari was born in 1984. He received the Master's Degree in Mechanical Engeneering in 2008 at the Polytechnic University of Marche. In 2012 he received the PhD degree in Computer Sciences and Automation Engeneering at the same University, where he presently collaborates with the robotics research group.