Comments on “Design and analysis of a totally decoupled 3-DOF spherical parallel manipulator” by D. Zhang and F. Zhang (Robotica, Available on CJO 19 Nov, 2010, doi:10.1017/S0263574710000652)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-8668|29|7|1101-1103

ISSN: 0263-5747

Source: Robotica, Vol.29, Iss.7, 2011-12, pp. : 1101-1103

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Abstract

D. Zhang and F. Zhang addressed the issue of designing and analyzing totally decoupled 3-DOF spherical parallel manipulators (SPMs) and concluded that the SPMs in Figs. 5(a) and 5(b) of ref. [1] are completely decoupled and fully isotropic (see Abstract, Section 5, and Conclusions in ref. [1]). This topic is of great interest to researchers working in the general area of parallel mechanisms. However, we disagree with the authors of ref. [1] on their conclusion.