미세 위치제어를 위한 미세 산업용 로봇의 작업물의 정도 보정을 위해 마이크로 조정기가 고안되었다. 피에조전기 엑추에이터를 이용한 능동 메커니즘을 증폭시키기 위한 메커니즘 설계는 위상 최적설계와 형상 최적설계의 진일보를 위해서 기하학적으로 구조적으로 둘 다 필요하다. 메커니즘의 총괄적인 기하학적 장점과 기계적 효율이 객관적성능으로서 고려되었으며, 이는 입력의 힘분에 출력의 변위, 지지발의 수직 운동과 조정기의 구조 강성의 각각의 비이다. 이들 목적함수를 최대화하기 위하여, 순차 선형 프로그램최적 기준법이 위상 재료 분포, 능동 구조물과 굽힘힌지의 기하학적 차원을 위해 사용되었다. 이 연구는 메커니즘의 능동성을 최대화 할 뿐 아니라, 위치도의 정확도와 충분한 작업공간을 보장하는 종합적 설계 공정을 보여준다. 실험은 역학적, 구조적 성능의 비교를 통해 설계공정을 유효화하기 위해 시행되었다

This paper presents cable-hydraulic driven 3DoF (Degree-of-Freedom) manipulator for cooperative robot with high output/low inertia and enhancing lager workspace of hydraulic manipulator. Hydraulic actuation could be solution to design more higher output manipulator than the one of electric motor actuation due to install actuation source and robot joint separated. In spite of this advantage, the conventional hydraulic driven manipulator using cylinder or vane actuator is not suitable for the candidate of cooperative robot because smaller workspace owing to small RoM (Range of Motion) hydraulic actuator. In this paper, we propose 3DoF manipulator with cable-hydraulic actuation which is more larger ratio of payload-to-weight than the one of conventional cooperative manipulator and larger workspace than the one of existing hydraulic driven manipulator. The performance of proposed manipulator was demonstrated by the experiments for confirming overall workspace task, high payload operation task under worst situation and comparing repeatability between developed manipulator and existed cooperative robots. The results of experiments showed that the appropriate performance of proposed manipulator for cooperative robot.

Machining error makes the uncertainty of dimensional accuracy of the kinematic structure of a parallel robot system, which makes the uncertainty of kinematic accuracy of the end-effector of the parallel robot system. In this paper, the tendency of trajectory tracking error caused by the tolerance of design parameters of the parallel robot is analyzed. For this purpose, all the position errors are analyzed as the manipulator is moved on the target trajectory. X, Y, Z components of the trajectory errors are analyzed respectively, as well as resultant errors, which give the designer of the manipulator the intuitive and deep understanding on the effects of each design parameter to the trajectory tracking errors caused by the uncertainty of dimensional accuracy. The research results shows which design parameters are critically sensitive to the trajectory tracking error and the tendency of the trajectory tracking error caused by them.

Dual arm manipulators have been developed for the entertainment purpose such as humanoid type or the industrial application such as automatic assembly. Nowadays, there are some issues for applying the dual arm robot system into the various fields. Especially, robots can substitute human and perform the dangerous activity such as search and rescue in the battle field or disaster. In the paper, the dual arm manipulator which can be adapted to the rescue robot with the mobile platform was developed. The kinematic design was proposed for the rescue activity and the required specification was determined through the kinematic analysis and the dynamic analysis in the various conditions. The proposed dual arm manipulator was manufactured based on the vibration analysis result and its performance was proved by the experiment.