The Virtual Prototyping Analysis Of 6-PUS Parallel Manipulator

The parallel mechanism is a parallel-actuated mechanism that has two platforms (upper and lower) connected by at least two branches and has at least two degrees of freedom. Parallel manipulator has been developed based on the parallel mechanism. Compared with the traditional series-connected robot, the parallel manipulator has its movement platforms actuated in parallel by several simple series connected movements chains, therefore has stronger bearing capacity, better dynamic performance and bigger ratio of rigidity load, thus are becoming more and more attractive to researchers and manufacturers. It has also become a research hot point in the manufacturing industries. Here, we selected the 6-PUS parallel mechanism -a typical kind of parallel mechanism that has six degrees of freedom, and conducted preliminary research and analysis on its fundamental theories. By comparing with several CAD software we selected ADAMS as the analysis software, then an introduction of the hypothesized prototypical technology and the software ADAMS which was developed for the commercialization of the hypothesized prototypical technology. We have also elaborated on the major functions of this software. A geometric modeling of the digitized 6-PUS parallel manipulator, analysis of the kinematics and dynam of the modeling using the ADAMS, and probed into the way of how to operate the ADAMS software and provided some preliminary ideas to the prototypical design and manufacture of the parallel manipulator.