Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art, provides a four-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism which has the characteristics of structural decoupling and motion decoupling, and has the advantages of lower mechanism analysis and control difficulty, large working space, high rigidity and easy assembly.
The invention relates to a four-degree-of-freedom decoupling parallel mechanism which comprises three static platforms, a first branched chain, a second branched chain, a third branched chain and a movable platform, the three static platforms are all fixed, the first branched chain, the second branched chain and the third branched chain respectively comprise a U-shaped connecting rod and an L-shaped connecting rod, a static platform sliding groove is formed in one end of the L-shaped connecting rod, the middle of the other end of the L-shaped connecting rod is fixedly connected with one end of the connecting rod, a connecting rod chute is arranged in the lower flange plate of the U-shaped connecting rod, a side rod section of the static platform is connected in the static platform chute of the L-shaped connecting rod in a sliding way, the static platform and the static platform sliding groove form a first sliding pair, the other end of the connecting rod is inserted into the connecting rod sliding groove of the U-shaped connecting rod to form a second sliding pair, so that the L-shaped connecting rod is in sliding connection with the U-shaped connecting rod, and the sliding direction of the first sliding pair is perpendicular to that of the second sliding pair;
the bottom wall of the movable platform is connected with a left support and a right support at left and right intervals, the left support and the right support respectively comprise support plates arranged at left and right intervals, the top wall of each support plate is fixedly connected with the bottom wall of the movable platform, the square head end of a square head cylindrical connecting rod is arranged between the left support plate and the right support plate of the right support, the upper end of a perforated cylindrical rod is arranged between the left support plate and the right support plate of the left support, the left side of a rotating shaft penetrates through the left support plate and the right support plate of the left support and the upper end of the perforated cylindrical rod, the right side of the rotating shaft penetrates through the left support plate and the right support plate of the right support and the square head cylindrical connecting rod, nuts are connected with the left end and the right end of the rotating shaft, the perforated cylindrical rod is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft to;
the lower side of the square-head cylindrical connecting rod is connected with the upper flange plate of the U-shaped connecting rod of the first branched chain through a third rotating pair, the lower part of the cylindrical rod with the hole is coaxially and rotatably connected with the upper end of one cylindrical connecting rod through a sixth rotating pair, the lower end of the cylindrical connecting rod is sequentially connected with the upper flange plate of the third branched chain and the upper flange plate of the second branched chain through a fifth rotating pair and a fourth rotating pair from top to bottom respectively in a rotating manner, and the rotating axis of the third rotating pair is perpendicular to that of the second rotating pair;
the planes of the first moving pair and the second moving pair of each branched chain are parallel to the horizontal plane, the moving direction of the first moving pair on the third branched chain is perpendicular to the moving direction of the first moving pair on the second branched chain, and the rotating axis of the first rotating pair is perpendicular to the rotating axis of the sixth rotating pair.
The invention has the following advantages:
the mechanism has two translational motions and two rotational motions with four degrees of freedom, a topological structure of the mechanism is decomposed into a plurality of single open chains according to an orientation feature set theory, and the coupling degree of the mechanism structure is further analyzed to be 0 according to the relationship between the degree of freedom of the mechanism and the degree of freedom of a kinematic pair (excluding a local degree of freedom), the number of driving pairs and the number of independent displacement equations of ordered single open chains which can be listed, so that the mechanism has a structural decoupling characteristic, the analytical forward solution of the mechanism can be easily calculated, and the mechanism is favorable for working space analysis, kinetic analysis and the like; according to the momentum theory, in any branch from the static platform to the movable platform, if a certain component of the momentum of a certain driving joint is not zero, the corresponding components of the momentum of other joints are all zero; in all the driving joint rotations, if a component of a certain driving rotation is not zero, corresponding components of other driving joint rotations are all zero. Therefore, each component of the motion vector of the mechanism moving platform is determined by only one driving joint, and the mechanism moving platform has a kinematic decoupling characteristic which is beneficial to reducing the difficulty of motion control and improving the control precision of the mechanism. The invention can form a three-movement two-rotation series-parallel mixing mechanism by connecting a small mechanism with a movement freedom degree in series at the tail end of the movable platform, wherein the movement freedom degree is vertical to the two translation directions of the parallel mechanism, and the three-movement two-rotation series-parallel mixing mechanism is used for occasions such as sorting, assembling, spraying, processing and 3D printing.
Detailed Description
The following embodiments are provided to illustrate the present invention, but are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
As shown in the attached drawings, the four-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism comprises three static platforms 1, a first branched chain 2, a second branched chain 3, a third branched chain 4 and a movable platform 6, wherein the three static platforms 1 are all fixed.
The first branched chain 2, the second branched chain 3 and the third branched chain 4 respectively comprise a U-shaped connecting rod 10 and an L-shaped connecting rod 8, wherein a fixed platform sliding groove is formed in one end of the L-shaped connecting rod 8, the middle of the other end of the L-shaped connecting rod 8 is fixedly connected with one end of the connecting rod, and a connecting rod sliding groove is formed in the lower flange plate of the U-shaped connecting rod. A side rod section of the static platform 1 is connected in a sliding mode in a static platform sliding groove of the L-shaped connecting rod 8, the static platform 1 and the static platform sliding groove form a first sliding pair 7, and the other end of the connecting rod is inserted into a connecting rod sliding groove of the U-shaped connecting rod 10 to form a second sliding pair 9, so that the L-shaped connecting rod 8 and the U-shaped connecting rod 10 are connected in a sliding mode. The sliding direction a of the first moving pair 7 and the sliding direction b of the second moving pair 9 are perpendicular to each other.
A left support 14 and a right support 13 are connected on the bottom wall of the movable platform 6 at intervals from left to right, the left support 14 and the right support 13 both comprise support plates arranged at left and right intervals, the top wall of each support plate is fixedly connected with the bottom wall of the movable platform 6, the square head end of a square head cylindrical connecting rod 12 is arranged between the left and right support plates of the right support 13, the upper end of a perforated cylindrical rod 5 is arranged between the left and right support plates of the left support 14, the left side of a rotating shaft passes through the left and right support plates of the left support 14 and the upper end of the perforated cylindrical rod 5, and the right side of the rotating shaft passes through the left and right support plates of the right support 13 and the square head end of the square head cylindrical connecting rod 12, the left end and the right end of the rotating shaft are connected with nuts, the cylindrical rod 5 with the hole is rotationally connected with the rotating shaft to form a first rotating pair, and the square-head cylindrical connecting rod 12 is rotationally connected with the rotating shaft to form a second rotating pair.
The lower side of the square-head cylindrical connecting rod 12 is connected with the upper flange plate of the U-shaped connecting rod of the first supporting chain 2 through a third rotating pair 11, the lower part of the perforated cylindrical rod 5 is coaxially and rotatably connected with the upper end of a cylindrical connecting rod 15 through a sixth rotating pair 18, as an embodiment of the invention, the structure of the sixth rotating pair 18 can comprise a bearing mounting hole formed in the middle of the bottom wall of the perforated cylindrical rod 5, a bearing is mounted in the bearing mounting hole, and the upper end of the cylindrical connecting rod 15 is fixedly connected with an inner ring of the bearing.
The lower end of the cylindrical connecting rod 15 is connected with the upper flange plate of the third branched chain 4 and the upper flange plate of the second branched chain 3 from top to bottom in sequence through a fifth revolute pair and a fourth revolute pair respectively.
As an embodiment of the present invention, the third revolute pair 11, the fourth revolute pair, and the fifth revolute pair are bearing structures, the bearing structures include bearing mounting holes respectively formed at an end of an upper flange plate of the U-shaped link of the first branch chain 2, an end of an upper flange plate of the U-shaped link of the second branch chain 3, and an end of an upper flange plate of the U-shaped link of the third branch chain 4, bearings are mounted in the bearing mounting holes, a lower side of the square-head cylindrical link 12 passes through a bearing inner ring on the first branch chain 2, the cylindrical link 15 sequentially passes through a bearing inner ring on the third branch chain 4 and a bearing inner ring on the second branch chain 3 from top to bottom, and the cylindrical link, the U-shaped link of the second branch chain 3, and the U-shaped link of the third branch chain 4 are connected by the fourth revolute pair 16 and the fifth revolute pair 17, respectively.
The rotation axis c of the third revolute pair 11 is perpendicular to the rotation axis d of the second revolute pair 13.
The planes of the first and second sliding pairs 7, 9 of the respective branches are parallel to the horizontal plane, and the moving direction g of the first sliding pair 7 on the third branch 4 is perpendicular to the moving direction e of the first sliding pair 7 on the second branch 3. The rotation axis d of the first revolute pair and the rotation axis f of the sixth revolute pair 18 are perpendicular to each other.
The driving pairs are a second rotating pair 13, a first moving pair 7 on the second branched chain 3, a first moving pair 7 on the third branched chain 4 and a sixth rotating pair 18. The rotating shaft is driven to drive the movable platform 6 to rotate so as to realize the rotation of the second revolute pair 13, the L-shaped connecting rod 8 is driven to enable the connecting rod 8 on the second branched chain 3 to move along the e direction so as to realize the movement of the first moving pair 7 on the second branched chain 3, and the L-shaped connecting rod 8 is driven to enable the connecting rod 8 on the third branched chain 4 to move along the g direction so as to realize the movement of the first moving pair 7 on the third branched chain 4. The sixth revolute pair 18 drives the perforated cylindrical rod 5 to rotate around the f-axis through driving the cylindrical connecting rod 15 to rotate, so that the sixth revolute pair 18 rotates.
(1) The structural decoupling of the parallel mechanism is discussed:
according to the theory of the orientation feature set,
wherein
Δj- -the jth single open-chain SOC in BKCjDegree of constraint of
fiOf the ith kinematic pairDegree of freedom
mj- - (th) socjNumber of pairs of movements Ij- - (th) socjNumber of driving pairs
- -number of independent displacement equations for jth independent loop
The degree of coupling of the basic kinematic chain BKC is defined as:
wherein min {. means that BKC is decomposed into v SOCs (Delta)
j) There are many decomposition schemes, which should be taken
The minimum SOC allocation scheme.
The first single open chain of the invention is composed of two sliding pairs of the
second branch chain 3 and two sliding pairs of the third branch chain 4, SOC
1T { -T ≠ T { [ T ] T { [ T ] T }, having four mobile joints,
wherein two drive pairs are respectively a first moving
pair 7 of the second
branched chain 3 and a first moving
pair 7 of the third branched chain 4, I
1Two translational displacements are generated, the first single open chain can get two equations for the translational displacement,
the degree of constraint Δ of the first single open chain
1When the value is 0, the two sliding joints of the second
sliding pair 9 of the
second branch chain 3 and the second
sliding pair 9 of the third branch chain 4 can be released.
Similarly, the second single-open chain is composed of the sixth
revolute pair 18, the first
revolute pair 14, the second
revolute pair 13, the third
revolute pair 11 and two revolute pairs of the
first branch chain 2, and the SOC
2{-R⊥R|R⊥R⊥T⊥T},
The rotation angle of the driving pair cylindrical connecting
rod 15 and the rotation angle of the second
rotating pair 13 are known, I
2The rotation angle of the third
rotating pair 11 is determined by the rotation angle of the
cylindrical connecting rod 15, the rotation angle of the first rotating pair is the same as that of the second rotating pair, the two moving pairs are determined by the two driving moving pairs in the first single open chain,
the degree of constraint Δ of the second single open chain
2All joints can be solved as 0. In summary, in the parallel mechanism, when the driving pairs are the second
revolute pair 13, the sixth
revolute pair 18, the first
revolute pair 7 of the second
branched chain 3, and the first
revolute pair 7 of the third branched chain 4, respectively, the coupling degree k of the present invention is zero, all passive joints can be solved, and an analytic positive solution of the parallel mechanism can be obtained.
(2) The motion decoupling of the parallel mechanism is discussed:
according to the theory of helicity: the four driving pairs are respectively a first moving pair 7 of the second branched chain 3, a first moving pair 7 of the third branched chain 4, a second rotating pair 13 and a sixth rotating pair 18.
Assuming that the origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the axis d of the second revolute pair 13 and the axis f of the sixth revolute pair 18, the x-axis is parallel to the moving direction e of the first revolute pair 7 of the second branched chain 3, and the y-axis is parallel to the moving direction g of the first revolute pair 7 of the third branched chain 4.
Rotating amount of moving platform
$P=(α β γ x y z)T
Driving pair rotation angle
θ=(θ1 θ1 θ3 θ4 0 0)T
Wherein
Dependent movement of one of alpha, beta being the other
i represents the first and the secondA three-branched chain; $ fit for the treatment of diabetes
1,i $
2,i $
3,i $
4,iThe motion rotation amounts of all joints of the ith branched chain are respectively,
respectively represents the movement speed of each joint of the ith branch chain
Wherein:
$
a,i Tthe unit driving force momentum provided for the branched chain i to the moving platform, i is 1, 2, 3
$a,2=[0 0 1 0 0 0]
$a,3=[0 0 0 1 0 0]
$a,4=[0 0 0 0 1 0]
Jc=[$c,1 T $c,2 T]Unit restraint rotation force rotation quantity provided for branched chain i to moving platform
$c,1 T=[0 0 0 0 0 1]
Formula (1) two-side co-multiplication JxIs finished to obtain
Wherein Jθ=Jx($1,i $2,i $3,i $4,i 0 0)
Formula (2) two sides are multiplied by Jx -1To obtain
Wherein J is Jx -1Jθ
The motion decoupling is realized by determining one motion output component of the movable platform by only one driving input.
The device can realize two rotations and two translation, and the two rotations are respectively along the rotation axis d of the second rotating pair 13 and the rotation axis f of the sixth rotating pair 18. The two translations are respectively along the moving direction e of the first moving pair 7 of the second branched chain and the moving direction g of the first moving pair 7 of the third branched chain.
The above-mentioned embodiments are only for illustrating the technical ideas and features of the present invention, and the purpose thereof is to enable those skilled in the art to understand the contents of the present invention and to carry out the same, and the present invention shall not be limited to the embodiments, i.e. the equivalent changes or modifications made within the spirit of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the present invention.