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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (19): 113-121.doi: 10.3901/JME.2020.19.113

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Structure Design Method of Complaint Parallel Mechanism for Grating Tiling with Heavy Load Capacity and High Precision

WU Shilei1, SHAO Zhongxi1, SU Haijun2, FU Hongya1   

  1. 1. School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001;
    2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, United States
  • Received:2020-06-03 Revised:2020-08-05 Online:2020-10-05 Published:2020-11-17

Abstract: Due to the limitation of the processing technology, the large-aperture grating is usually tiled by using mechanical tiling technique with small segments. In order to guarantee the success of target shooting, the grating tiling mechanism is required to achieve nano-scale motion accuracy. The compliant parallel mechanism actuated by piezoelectric can achieve nano-scale motion accuracy, however, flexible joints reduce the bearing capacity of the mechanism. To solve the contradiction between "heavy load" and "high precision" in the compliant parallel mechanism. A class grating compliant parallel mechanism with large stroke, heavy load capacity, high precision is proposed based on constraint-based method by decoupling driving and moving units. And, it has the characteristics of rigid-flexible hybrid, series-parallel hybrid, three orthogonal planes, single point supporting, and precisely constrained passive chain. To realize high precision motion, the kinematics analysis of the grating tiling mechanism was carried out. Finally, a series of experiments are carried out to test the motion accuracy. The experimental results show that the compliant parallel mechanism can meet the requirements of grating tiling tasks.

Key words: grating tiling, complaint parallel mechanism, heavy load capacity, kinematics analysis

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