Visual design study and implementation for 3 DOF parallel kinematic manipulator

Traditional design of 3-DOF parallel kinematic manipulator is a serial design, in which physical prototype based design and verification bring about restrictions to the development period and efficiency. In order to realize rapidly and efficiently from the conceptual design step to prototyping step, it's proposed to combine VR with kinematics analysis, structure design and kinetic analysis to develop a visual design environment (VDE). Based on visualization of kinematic solutions the analysis results can fully account for kinematic behavior of the real machine. Moreover, the verification based on kinetic mode makes sure the design reasonable and reliable. Compared with traditional design our developed routines are very effective. In this paper the implementation is described in detail