Determining Feasible Cable Attachment Locations for Cable-Driven-Parallel Robot
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) offer significant potential in applications requiring large workspaces. However, determining the locations of the cable attachment points (or called the cable exit points) remains a critical design challenge. This work addresses the design challenge of the fully-constrained CDPRs by proposing a novel method to identify feasible regions for cable attachment points. Building on polynomial optimization frameworks from the previous work, this approach simplifies the evaluation of wrench-closure workspace conditions, while minimizing computational effort. By visualizing feasible attachment regions and introducing a prioritized reconfiguration index (PRI), the method provides practical insights for optimizing cable placement and designing reconfigurable mechanisms. Results demonstrate its effectiveness in identifying feasible configurations for m=n+1 systems where m is cable number and n is the degree-of-freedom, helping designers to intuitively obtain the feasible regions and select appropriate configurations based on workspace requirements.
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chinese University of Hong Kong
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2025
978-3-031-94608-0
Mechanisms and Machine Science; 182
2211-0992
2211-0984
261
273
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EPFL
| Event name | Event acronym | Event place | Event date |
HKG, China | 2025-07-08 - 2025-07-11 | ||