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Development of Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator

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In this paper, a novel Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator is proposed. The aim of the proposed redundant parallel manipulator is to provide unlimited spherical motion. The conceptual design is first presented and followed by three different prototypes. The motivations of each prototype are explained and the structures of each prototype are described in detail. During the development of RSMG, different problems have been addressed and solved by the following up prototypes.

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The support from ARC Discovery DP0985120 is acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Shiu Hang Ip, Chao Chen & Richard P. H. Chen

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Denny Oetomo

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  2. University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 15A, Genova, Italy

    Matteo Zoppi

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    Xianwen Kong

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Ip, S.H., Chen, C., Chen, R.P.H., Oetomo, D. (2012). Development of Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator. In: Dai, J., Zoppi, M., Kong, X. (eds) Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4141-9_26

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