Development and Control of a 5-Axis Reconfigurable Machine Tool

The development of a hybrid reconfigurable machine tool has been introduced. The machine tool consists of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine (PKM) module with three degrees of freedom (DOF) and a serial linear 𝑋-𝑌 table with two DOF. The PKM is installed on a gantry system which is capable of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Z. M. Bi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/583072