Milling refers to a class of material processing methods that relies on a high-speed rotating
milling cutter removing extra material to get desired shapes and features. Being distinct from …

Parallel kinematic mechanisms (PKM) have received particular attention due to their higher
stiffness, increased payload capacity, and agility, when compared to their serial …

Although robots tend to be as competitive as CNC machines for some operations, they are
not yet widely used for machining operations. This may be due to the lack of certain …

The paper presents a methodology to enhance the stiffness analysis of serial and parallel
manipulators with passive joints. It directly takes into account the influence of external and …

The paper is devoted to the robotic based machining. The main focus is made on robot
accuracy in milling operation and evaluation robot capacity to perform the task with desired …

The paper addresses a problem of robotic manipulator calibration in real industrial
environment. The main contributions are in the area of the elastostatic parameter …

The paper generalizes existing contributions to the stiffness modeling of robotic
manipulators using Matrix Structural Analysis. It presents a unified and systematic approach …

This paper introduces a dynamic modeling and design approach for a novel 5-DOF
(degrees of freedom) hybrid robot for machining. It mainly considers three performance …

The paper presents an advanced stiffness modeling technique for perfect and non-perfect
parallel manipulators under internal and external loadings. Particular attention is paid to the …

In order to carry out high-precision machining of aerospace structural components with large
size, thin wall and complex surface, this paper proposes a novel parallel kinematic machine …