Ntn Corporation

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Hirofumi Fukumaru

Akihiro Hayashi

Kenzou Nose

Hideki Matsuzawa

Hiroshi Isobe

Seigo Sakata

Toshiki Takaki

Taiga Okamoto

Toshiki Takagi

A link actuation device includes a proximal link hub, a distal link hub, link mechanisms that couple the link hubs, an actuator, and a control device. The actuator includes motors provided for link mechanisms, respectively. The control device stores a map in which drive command values for each of the motors corresponding to a plurality of discrete positions within a movable range of the distal link hub are stored. Upon receipt of a command value for movement to a position that coincides with none of the plurality of positions within the movable range, the control device determines a drive command value for each of the motors by interpolating a region surrounded by four points at the plurality of positions on the map using a polynomial curved surface formula.

Link actuation device and method for driving link actuation device

A link actuation apparatus that actuates a parallel link mechanism where a spherical drive mechanism is constructed includes a controller configured to calculate, based on spherical trigonometry, an attitude of a second link hub from angles &#x3b2;and &#x3b2;that represent the attitude of a first end link member with respect to a first link hub in two of at least three link mechanisms. The link actuation apparatus capable of performing forward transformation in real time is thus provided.

Link actuation apparatus

A parallel link mechanism includes a proximal end member and three or more link mechanisms. Three or more link mechanisms connect the proximal end member to a distal end member. In three or more link mechanisms, a first center axis of a first revolute pair unit and a second center axis of a second revolute pair unit intersect at a spherical link center point. Fifth center axes of respective fifth revolute pair units of three or more link mechanisms overlap each other and intersect with the spherical link center point.

Parallel link mechanism and link actuation device

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Hirofumi Fukumaru