Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Winter 1-31-1994
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
First Advisor
Zhiming Ji
Second Advisor
Nouri Levy
Third Advisor
Ian Sanford Fischer
Abstract
This thesis deals with solving the problem of placing the base plate in an optimum position and orientation in a three dimensional space for the desired locations of the mobile end platform of a Stewart platform parallel manipulator.
First the workspace of the mobile plate is expressed as a function of the base plate position. Then the objective function is generated by summing the squared distances from the various desired locations of the mobile plate to the center of the platform's workspace. This function consists of six unknown variables which define the position and orientation of the base plate. A computer program based on the Downhill Simplex method in multidimensions has been used to obtain the values of the six variables for the minimum value of the function when the end platform is placed in the desired locations. These values of the variables have been used to calculate the optimum location of the base plate. HOOPS software has been used to graphically represent the parallel manipulator in its calculated optimum position and orientation in a 3-d space for the desired locations of the end platform which has to be specified by the user.
Recommended Citation
Chanda, Rajesh, "Base plate placement for a predefined workspace of a Stewart platform parallel manipulator" (1994). Theses. 1603.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1603
