Forward Displacement Analysis of a General 6-3 Stewart Platform Using Conformal Geometric Algebra

作者:Wei, Feng; Wei, Shimin*; Zhang, Ying; Liao, Qizheng
来源:Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2017, 2017: 4687638.
DOI:10.1155/2017/4687638

摘要

In this paper, a new algorithm for the forward displacement analysis of a general 6-3 Stewart platform(6-3SPS) based on conformal geometric algebra (CGA) is presented. First, a 6-3SPS structure is changed into an equivalent 2RPS-2SPS structure. Then, two kinematic constraint equations are established based on the geometric characteristics, one of which is built according to the point characteristic four-ball intersection in CGA. A 16th-degree univariate polynomial equation is derived from the aforementioned two equations by the Sylvester resultant elimination. Finally, a numerical example is given to verify the algorithm.