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Item Design and control of a redundant suspended cable-driven parallel robots(Springer Netherlands, 2012-01-01) Lamaury, Johann; Gouttefarde, Marc; Michelin, Micaël; Tempier, Olivier; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThis paper introduces a six degree-of-freedom suspended parallel robot driven by eight cables. The determination of an optimal geometry of such a parallel cable robot together with the design of a prototype are briefly outlined. Then, based on usual kinematic modeling, a basic control strategy is presented. Since the parallel cable-driven robot presented here is redundantly actuated, this control strategy has to deal with the problem of cable tension distribution. This latter turns out to be challenging because of the under-constrained nature of the considered cable-driven robot. The extension to these robots of existing tension distribution methods is finally discussed.Item Geometry Selection of a Redundantly Actuated Cable-Suspended Parallel Robot(2015-04-01) Gouttefarde, Marc; Collard, Jean François; Riehl, Nicolas; Baradat, Cédric; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThis paper is dedicated to the geometry selection of a redundantly actuated cable-suspended parallel robot intended to manipulate heavy payloads over a wide workspace. Cable-suspended refers here to cable-driven parallel robots in a crane-like setting, where all the cable drawing points are located on top of the base frame, gravity being used to keep the cables taut. Geometry selection consists of determining the relative positions of the cable drawing points on the base frame and of the cable attachment points on the mobile platform together with the cable arrangement between these two sets of points. An original performance index is introduced. It is defined as the maximum acceptable distance between the mobile platform geometric center and the center of mass of the set consisting of the platform and a payload. This performance index is of particular interest in heavy payload handling applications. Used within a two-phase geometry selection strategy, it yields a new cable-suspended robot geometry having a very large workspace to footprint ratio and able to handle heavy payloads. A large-dimension redundantly actuated cable-suspended robot was built in order to demonstrate these capabilities.Item Large-scale 3D printing with cable-driven parallel robots(2017-08-30) Izard, Jean-Baptiste; Dubor, Alexandre; Hervé, Pierre-Elie; Cabay, Edouard; Culla, David; Rodriguez, Mariola; Barrado, Mikel; Tecnalia Research & InnovationGantry robots and anthropomorphic arms of various sizes have already been studied and, while they are in use in some parts of the world for automated construction, a new kind of wide workspace machinery, cable-driven parallel robots (CDPR), has emerged. These robots are capable of automated movement in a very wide workspace, using cables reeled in and out by winches as actuation members, the other elements being easily stacked for easy relocation and reconfiguration, which is critical for on-site construction. The motivation of this paper is to showcase the potential of a CDPR operating solely on motor position sensors and showing limited collisions from the cables for large-scale applications in the building industry relevant for additive manufacturing, without risk of collisions between the cables and the building. The combination of the Cogiro CDPR (Tecnalia, LIRMM-CNRS 2010) with the extruder and material of the Pylos project (IAAC 2013) opens the opportunity to a 3D printing machine with a workspace of 13.6 × 9.4 × 3.3 m. The design patterns for printing on such a large scale are disclosed, as well as the modifications that were necessary for both the Cogiro robot and Pylos extruder and material. Two prints, with different patterns, have been achieved with the Pylos extruder mounted on Cogiro: the first spanning 3.5 m in length, the second, reaching a height of 0.86 m. Based on this initial experiment, plans for building larger parts and buildings are discussed, as well as other possible applications for CDPRs in construction, such as the manipulation of assembly processes (windows, lintels, beams, floor elements, curtain wall modules, etc.) or brick laying.Item Modeling and vision-based control of large-dimension cable-driven parallel robots using a multiple-camera setup(2019-08) Dallej, Tej; Gouttefarde, Marc; Andreff, Nicolas; Hervé, Pierre Elie; Martinet, Philippe; ROBOTICA_AUTOMAThis paper deals with the modeling and vision-based control of large-dimension cable-driven parallel robots. Inverse kinematics and instantaneous inverse kinematics models are derived from the elastic catenary cable modeling. These models turn out to be dependent on the pose of the mobile platform (end-effector), on the cable tangent directions and on the cable tensions. In order to control the motion of the robot, a position-based visual servo control is used, where the mobile platform pose is measured by vision and used for regulation. A multi-camera setup and load cells provide the aforementioned desired measurements, i.e., the mobile platform pose, the directions of the tangents to the cables, and the cable tensions. The proposed approach was validated in experiments on the large-dimension cable-driven parallel robot prototype CoGiRo of global dimensions 15 m × 11 m × 6 m (L × l × h). A maximum error of less than 1 cm in position and 0.5∘ in orientation was achieved. Moreover, in the case of cable-driven parallel robots larger than the prototype CoGiRo, simulations were conducted in order to assess the influence on the vision-based control of four instantaneous inverse kinematics models.Item Vibration analysis of cable-driven parallel robots based on the dynamic stiffness matrix method(2017-04-28) Yuan, Han; Courteille, Eric; Gouttefarde, Marc; Hervé, Pierre-Elie; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThis paper focuses on the vibration analysis of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs). An oscillating model of CDPRs able to capture the dynamic behavior of the cables is derived using Lagrangian approach in conjunction with the Dynamic Stiffness Matrix method. Then, an original approach to analyze the modal interaction between the local cable modes and the global CDPR modes is presented. To illustrate this approach, numerical investigations and experimental analyses are carried out on a large-dimension 6-DOF suspended CDPR driven by 8 cables.