... and appropriate for quadruped locomotion to traverse challenging 3-D terrains. Originality/value This paper analyzes kinematic workspace for a parallel robot with 6-DOF Stewart mechanism on both body and foot. A fan-shaped foot search region enhances computation efficiency. Receding horizon broadens...

... are as follows: Actuation redundancy Chewing robot Parallel robot Experimental verification Mandibular movement Workspace A humanoid chewing robot refers to a kind of robot, device or simulator that can simulate some human masticatory movement (Xu and Bronlund, 2010) and can be used...

... contact and is a redundantly actuated spatial parallel mechanism. Ming Cong can be contacted at: congm@dlut.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Actuation redundancy Chewing robot Human mastication Parallel robot Mechanical reproduction of human mastication...

... at: lara@fem.unicamp.br Parallel robot Generalized predictive control Robot control Parallel robots have several conceptual advantages over their counterpart serial robots, such as higher accuracy, stiffness, payload – weight ratio and better dynamic performance. Therefore, parallel robots...

... its performance. Given this, the designer needs to look for the optimum relative values for these geometric parameters to maximize the potential performance of the device. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Robotics Optimum design Prototypes Parallel robot Design methodology...

...Ahmed Joubair; Mohamed Slamani; Ilian A. Bonev Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a calibration method developed to improve the absolute accuracy of a novel three degrees‐of‐freedom planar parallel robot. The robot is designed for the precise alignment of semiconductor wafers...