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The number of applications of parallel robots, ranging from medical surgery to astronomy, has increased enormously during the last decades due to their advantages of high speed, stiffness, accuracy, load/weight ratio, etc. One of the drawbacks of these parallel robots are their singular configurations, where the manipulator has at least one uncontrollable instantaneous degree of freedom. Furthermore, the actuator forces can become very large, which may result in a breakdown of the mechanism. Therefore singularities have to be avoided. As a consequence the kinematic/robotic community is highly interested in evaluating the singularity closeness, but a geometric meaningful distance measure between a given manipulator configuration and the next singular configuration is still missing. We close this gap for parallel manipulators of Stewart Gough type by introducing such measures. Moreover the favored metric has a clear physical meaning, which is very important for the acceptance of this index by mechanical/constructional engineers.
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The author is supported by Grant No. P 30855-N32 of the Austrian Science Fund FWF.
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Nawratil, G. (2019). Singularity Distance for Parallel Manipulators of Stewart Gough Type. In: Uhl, T. (eds) Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science. IFToMM WC 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 73. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20131-9_26
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