Parallel PnP Robots: Parametric Modeling, Performance Evaluation and Design Optimization [Hardcover]

This book discusses the parametric modeling, performance evaluation, design optimization and comparative study of the high-speed, parallel pick-and-place robots. It collects the modeling methodology, evaluation criteria and design guidelines for parallel PnP robots to provide a systematic analysis method for robotic developers. Furthermore, it gathers the research results previously scattered in many prestigious international journals and conference proceedings and methodically edits them and presents them in a unified form. The book is of interest to researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in industrial parallel robotics who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications.Introduction.- Architecture of Parallel PnP Robots.- Geometric Kinematics.- Differential Kinematics.- Elasto statics of Robot.- Robot Dynamics.- Design Optimization.

Books on parallel robots or PnP robots are rare, the combination of both topics is quite unique. & A typical chapter starts with a compact theoretical introduction of relevant concepts which is followed by a detailed discussion at hand of several more or less sophisticated PnP robots. This focus on concrete examples makes the book well suited for self-study, but it is certainly also suited as primary reading for a theoretical robotics class at graduate level. (Hans-Peter Schr?cker, zbMATH 1537.70002, 2024)

Dr. Guanglei Wu received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, 2013. He was granted an industrial project by Innovation Fund Denmark and worked as a postdoc fellow in Aalborg University from 2014 to 2016. He was a visiting scholar in the Research Institute in Communications and Cybernetics of Nantes (IRCCyN, the former LS2N) in 2012. Currently, he is an associate professor  in Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include conceptual design of robots, performance evalulã€