Research Article

A New Decoupling Method for Explicit Stiffness Analysis of Kinematically Redundant Planar Parallel Kinematic Mechanism

Table 3

Simulation results of the active stiffness decoupling.

Kinds of actuation and casesElements of stiffness matrices N/m
,

Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
−34.7261
−41.2902
6.6080
−19.3766
−149.5999
−177.8776
Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
2.3697
−32.5381
11.1586
15.2695
−1.2604
−140.1739
Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
0.5451
42.0169
7.4912
29.3649
−32.0588
135.1325
Redundant actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
−31.811425.2578−182.9190