Delta Robot Design

Abstract:

The article proposes an approach to the development of a Delta robot which is the most frequently used robot with a parallel kinematic structure for industrial fast pick and place applications. The approach is model based and it summarizes important steps for the successful design of a Delta robot for the given application including description of the kinematics, multi-body dynamics modelling and flexible bodies notes. This is demonstrated on the particular Delta robot developed at Brno University of Technology (BUT).

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 198)
• Pages: 9-14
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.198.9
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Lukas Březina, Michal Holub, Ladislav Cintula, Jiri Kovar
• Keywords: Delta Robot, Flexible Bodies, Kinematics, Multibody Dynamics (MBD), Parallel Manipulator

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