• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.97-104
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• 2003

This paper proposes a new parallel manipulator fur plane motion, and then discusses on the workspace and kinematical characteristics of the manipulator. The conventional planar parallel manipulators have some disadvantages which are complex non-closed type direct kinematics, workspaces containing useless voids, and concave type border tines of workspaces. The proposed planar parallel manipulator overcomes the above disadvantages, that is, the manipulator has simple closed type direct kinematics, a void-free workspace, and a convex type borderline of a workspace. This paper shows the simulation result of the workspace as well as performances indices using a homogeneous inverse Jacobian.