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Over the past several decades, the research and development of parallel manipulators that have been widely used as mechanical architectures have been extensively carried out. This introductory chapter presents the definitions and advantages of the parallel manipulators, compared to their serial counterparts, together with some typical examples of industrial applications of the parallel mechanisms. After the description of some important terminologies commonly used in the field of parallel robots, a brief historical development of the parallel pick-and-place robots is presented, serving in material handling. At the end of this chapter, the main objectives and organization of this book are depicted.
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The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm.
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A robot with SCARA motion, a.k.a. Schönflies motion, namely, three independent translations and one rotation around a fixed direction of an axis, are also named as Schönflies-motion robot or Schönflies motion generator (SMG).
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Here, a cycle is defined as the movement along a trajectory of \(25\,\mathrm {mm}\times 300\,\mathrm {mm}\times 25\,\mathrm {mm}\) with a \(1\,\mathrm {kg}\) payload per minute (cpm) in the definition of Adept test cycle [100], which can also be a trajectory of \(25\,\mathrm {mm}\times 305\,\mathrm {mm}\times 25\,\mathrm {mm}\) instead in some definitions.
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Throughout this book, the end-effector is referred to the moving platform, without additional devices attached to the former.
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Wu, G., Shen, H. (2021). Introduction. In: Parallel PnP Robots. Research on Intelligent Manufacturing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6671-4_1
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