A Novel Analytic Approach for the Forward Kinematics of the 3-6-type Stewart Platform using Tetrahedron Configurations

사면체 조합을 이용한 3-6형태의 스튜어트 플랫폼의 정기구학의 새로운 해석법

This paper presents a new analytic approach using tetrahedrons to determine the forward kinematics of the 3-6-type Stewart platform. By using of the tetrahedral geometry, this approach has the advantage of greatly reducing the complexity of formulation and the computational burden required by the conventional methods which have been solved the forward kinematics with three unknown angles. As a result, this approach allows a significant abbreviation in the formulations and provides an easier means of obtaining the solutions. The proposed method is well verified through a series of numerical simulation.