Cable driven parallel manipulator (CDPM) is a special class of parallel manipulator in which the rigid extensible links are replaced by actuated cables. It is necessary to take into consideration the cable dynamics, i.e.; its mass, flexibility and curved shape for manipulating a long-span CDPM. These terms complicate governing equation of motion in a way that special tactic are applied for simulation and solving this problem. Flexibility and mass of cables impose vibration and error in path trajectory planning. Effect of varying stiffness in precise performance of CDPM is surveyed. The cables are modelled, in ADAMS software to illustrate the dynamical behaviours of the manipulator for comparison with the simulated results. Moreover, an algorithm is developed to study the effects of velocity and acceleration of the end-effector on the dynamics of CDPMs. Moreover it is shown that the evolutionary computing algorithms are so effective in solving complicated nonlinear dynamic path trajectory planning. Simulations for different trajectories of two CDPMs are included to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. تفاصيل المقالة

Four-bar mechanisms are one of the most common and effective components in the industry. As an example of their applications, they are designed to generate the desired output motion. In this paper, the nonlinear problem of optimal defect-free synthesis of four-bar mechanisms is analyzed by using a constrained version of the newly developed adaptive particularly tunable fuzzy particle swarm optimization (APT-FPSO) algorithm. The analyzed case study is designing a four-bar mechanism to generate a path that included three loops and 90 precision points. The results obtained support the superior performance of APT-FPSO compared to the standard PSO in solving the path generation problem. تفاصيل المقالة