Research Article

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

Table 4

Simulation results of the passive stiffness decoupling.

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

Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
7.2688
7.2688
−4.0493
8.0986
9.0231
9.0231
Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
2.8354
7.2688
1.4985
−8.0986
14.4458
9.0231
Nonredundant
and actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
8.5063
4.0730
16.6434
14.0925
43.3375
48.7602
Redundant actuation
 Case-1
 Case-2
18.610614.092566.8065