Mechanical Engineering / Makina Mühendisliği

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    A Robot Arm Design Optimization Method by Using a Kinematic Redundancy Resolution Technique
    (MDPI, 2022) Maaroof, Omar W.; Dede, Mehmet İsmet Can; Aydın, Levent
    Redundancy resolution techniques have been widely used for the control of kinematically redundant robots. In this work, one of the redundancy resolution techniques is employed in the mechanical design optimization of a robot arm. Although the robot arm is non-redundant, the proposed method modifies robot arm kinematics by adding virtual joints to make the robot arm kinematically redundant. In the proposed method, a suitable objective function is selected to optimize the robot arm’s kinematic parameters by enhancing one or more performance indices. Then the robot arm’s end-effector is fixed at critical positions while the redundancy resolution algorithm moves its joints including the virtual joints because of the self-motion of a redundant robot. Hence, the optimum values of the virtual joints are determined, and the design of the robot arm is modified accordingly. An advantage of this method is the visualization of the changes in the manipulator’s structure during the optimization process. In this work, as a case study, a passive robotic arm that is used in a surgical robot system is considered and the task is defined as the determination of the optimum base location and the first link’s length. The results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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    Citation - WoS: 11
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    A New Stiffness Performance Index: Volumetric Isotropy Index
    (MDPI, 2019) Görgülü, İbrahimcan; Dede, Mehmet İsmet Can
    A new index for a precise calculation of a manipulator's stiffness isotropy is introduced. The proposed index is compared with the conventionally used stiffness isotropy index by making use of the investigation on R-CUBE manipulator. The proposed index is shown to produce relatively more precise results from which a higher number of isotropic poses are detected.