A review on cable-driven parallel robots

S Qian, B Zi, WW Shang, QS Xu - Chinese Journal of Mechanical …, 2018 - Springer
Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) are categorized as a type of parallel manipulators. In
CDPRs, flexible cables are used to take the place of rigid links. The particular property of …

A nonlinear model predictive control for the position tracking of cable-driven parallel robots

JC Santos, M Gouttefarde… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) strategy for the position
tracking of cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs). The NMPC formulation handles explicitly …

Workspace-based model predictive control for cable-driven robots

C Song, D Lau - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The control of cable-driven robots is challenging due to the system's nonlinearity, actuation
redundancy, and the unilaterally bounded actuation constraints. To solve this problem, a …

CU-brick cable-driven robot for automated construction of complex brick structures: From simulation to hardware realisation

Y Wu, HH Cheng, A Fingrut, K Crolla… - … , and programming for …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic building construction has had significant advances in the recent decades, but also
has various limitations. In particular, construction typically requires a robot to operate within …

CASPR: A comprehensive cable-robot analysis and simulation platform for the research of cable-driven parallel robots

D Lau, J Eden, Y Tan, D Oetomo - 2016 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study of cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) has attracted much attention in recent
years. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no single software platform exists for …

Generalized ray-based lattice generation and graph representation of wrench-closure workspace for arbitrary cable-driven robots

G Abbasnejad, J Eden, D Lau - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new generalized ray-based approach to the generation and
representation of the wrench-closure workspace (WCW) for cable-driven robots (CDRs) …

Polytope-based continuous scalar performance measure with analytical gradient for effective robot manipulation

K Sagar, S Caro, T Padır, P Long - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Performance measures are essential to characterize a robot's ability to carry out
manipulation tasks. Generally, these measures examine the system's kinematic …

Enhancing anti-disturbance performance of redundant cable-driven parallel robots: Analysis and tension distribution method

J Duan, H Liu, L Yan, Z Shao, Z Zhang, X Tang… - … and Machine Theory, 2025 - Elsevier
Anti-disturbance performance reflects the core performance of cable-driven parallel robots
(CDPRs) to resist external wrenches and exert wrenches to the outside world, which plays a …

Anti-disturbance performance analysis and the innovative design of the FAST fine-tuning platform

J Duan, H Liu, Z Shao, R Yao, Z Zhang… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to further increase the observation range and sensitivity of the Five-hundred-meter
Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), an innovative design of the cable-driven fine-tuning …

Analytical tension-distribution computation for cable-driven parallel robots using hypersphere mapping algorithm

X Geng, M Li, Y Liu, Y Li, W Zheng, Z Li - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
Fully restrained cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) are known for their low moving inertia,
high payload-to-weight ratio, and large workspace, and are widely used in modern industry …