Modeling and
simulation of
integrated environment for parallel robots
Modeling and
simulation are important and essential stages in the
engineering design and problem solving process because
it allows to prevent the risks and to lower the costs
that appear with the design, construction and testing
stage of a new robot. In the design process of parallel
robots different tools can be used to model and simulate
a robot. There are however different modeling and
simulation tools which can be used together with one
another to help into the development of a model. These
different tools can vary according to its functionality
and according to its best use for Modeling. For example
some tools are best suitable for first functionality
model such as CAD software (SolidWorks). SolidWorks is
mainly a CAD tool although one can also do some
simulation in SolidWorks, it is not the best tool used
for simulation. For that reason other simulation tools
such as ADAMS can be used instead to perform the
dynamical simulation of the robot. The same thing, ADAMS
is again not the proper CAD tool so one can not get
detailed geometrical information about the parts and
elements of the parallel Robots. ADAMS does not also
perform the simulation of the functionality of the
Robot, so it only shows how a robot would move in
reality and one can get real physical information about
the Robot and how it would perform dynamically in
reality. For simulation and control of a parallel robot
other software tool such as MATLAB can be used to
simulate the parallel robot.
Fig. 1
Integrated Environment for simulation and modeling of
parallel robots
With the
help of SolidWorks software we can make: 1) the CAD
model of the parallel robot, 2) detailed modeling of the
parallel robot components, 3) choose appropriate
material for parts from the material library, 4)
assembling parts and components, 5) get geometrical and
physical information about the
parts.
With ADAMS software we can determine: 1)
the simulation of the dynamical movement of the parallel
robot, 2) deal with joints and actuators, 3) simulate
the real movement of the
parallel robot. With MATLAB software we can elaborate
and simulate the control of parallel robots.
Current
Reasearch:
ISOGLIDE 3
- Parallel Robot with Decoupled
Motions
- ISOGLIDE
- Parallel Robot with Decoupled
Motions
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