Finding the common tangents to four spheres via dimensionality reduction

One of the advantages of formulating position analysis problems in terms of distances is that the dimension of the problem can be reduced by projecting the problem onto a subspace. Although, in general, this operation does not provide a significant advantage, when parallelism or alignment constraint...

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Autores: Porta Pleite, Josep Maria|||0000-0002-5056-1717; Thomas, Federico|||0000-0001-9341-5528
Tipo de documento: Capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/428650
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/428650
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64057-5_14
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Automation
Classificació INSPEC::Automation
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Robòtica
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Sumario:One of the advantages of formulating position analysis problems in terms of distances is that the dimension of the problem can be reduced by projecting the problem onto a subspace. Although, in general, this operation does not provide a significant advantage, when parallelism or alignment constraints must be enforced, a proper projection results in an important simplification. This is the case when computing the common tangents to four spheres in R^3. In this paper, we first show how this problem can be formulated in terms of just five points in R^2 thanks to projection, and then this is applied to solve the forward kinematics of the 4-SPC parallel robot.