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A novel 5-DOF fully parallel kinematic machine tool

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A novel 5-DOF (degree of freedom) fully parallel machine tool is presented in this paper. The parallel machine tool uses a compound limb to restrict the rotational degree of freedom of the moving platform, which is an unnecessary degree of freedom in the 5-axis machining process. The kinematics of the compound limb is illuminated especially. The closed-form solution is developed for the inverse kinematics. Due to the difficulty in comprehending the kinematics of the parallel kinematic machine tool, the movement of the moving platform in the fixed frame is also explained.

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The research work reported here was completed under the support of the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (2001AA421280) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50125516).

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200030, People’s Republic of China

    Feng Gao

  2. Robotics Research Institute, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, 100083, People’s Republic of China

    Feng Gao, Binbin Peng & Hui Zhao

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300130, People’s Republic of China

    Weimin Li

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Gao, F., Peng, B., Zhao, H. et al. A novel 5-DOF fully parallel kinematic machine tool. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 31, 201–207 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0171-1

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