
Studies the dynamics of parallel manipulators. We first have a brief review and discussion on different dynamics formulations in the literature (Newton-Euler, direct Lagrangian, and Lagrange-D'Alembert formulation on the reduced system). Then we show the equivalence of these methods. Based on the concepts from differential manifolds, we prove that away from configuration singularity, there exists a projection from the joint space to parameterize the configuration space. The fact that the dynamics is well defined even at actuators singularity, end-effector singularity and other kinds of parameterization singularity is highlighted. For the method of reduced systems, there are two main drawbacks. Firstly the joints being cut for forming the tree system are presumed to have no external torque. Secondly the force and torque applied to other links of the manipulator is not considered. We propose two methods to remedy the situation. Firstly by cutting a link instead of a joint, all the joints torque can be incorporated into our equations of motion. This is useful not only for the case of actuating all the joints, but also if we consider compensating the joints friction. Secondly we propose a concept of transforming force to the generalized force space so that all the other forces and torque can be considered.
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