Exact Computation of Parallel Robot''''s Generalized Inertia Matrix

According to the definition of the new hypothetical states which have obvious physical sig-nificance and are termed as no-gravity static and accelerated states, a method for exact computa-tion of the parallel robot's generalized inertia matrix is presented. Based on the matrix theory, the generalized inertia matrix of the parallel robot can be computed on the assumption that the robot is in these new hypothetical states respectively. The approach is demonstrated by the Delta robot as an example. Based on the principle of the virtual work, the inverse dynamics model of the robot is formulized after the kinematics analysis. Finally, a numerical example is given and the element dis-tribution of the Delta robot's inertia matrix in the workspace is studied. The method has computational advantage of numerical accuracy for the Delta robot and can be parallelized easily.