A concept for actuating and controlling a leg of a novel walking parallel kinematic machine tool

The scope of this paper is to present a novel method of actuating the legs of a walking parallel kinematic machine tool (WalkingHex) such that the upper spherical joint can be actively driven while walking and remain a free, passive joint while performing machining operations. Different concepts for...

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Main Authors: Rushworth, Adam, Axinte, Dragos, Raffles, Mark, Cobos-Guzman, Salvador
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40440/