0 a power-driven machine that shapes metal, wood, or plastics by cutting, pressing, or drilling. -- verktøymaskin
The machine tool is described by the degrees of motion freedom it has.
In general, a columned reachable workspace is required for a parallel kinematic machine tool for its special configuration arrangement.
Note that this 5-axis machine tool would probably be sold with a feedrate capability advertised as 200 mm/s.
The possible applications of this robot include a wrist mechanism, an orientating device for a machine tool bed, a surgical force-feedback, and others.
To assess the performance of the machine tool, the contouring performances of the machine along circular and straight-line paths are evaluated.
Figure 11 shows the matches for the machine tool in this example.
Figure 4 shows the driving forces that are computed from the dynamic model when the machine tool moves along the linear trajectory.
Some relationships between the reachable workspace and the dimensional parameters of the parallel machine tool have been obtained with graphical representation.
