Research and development of various parallel mechanism applications in
engineering are now being performed more and more actively in every
industrial field. Parallel robot based machine tools development is
considered a key technology of robot applications in manufacturing
industries. The material covered here describes the basic theory,
approaches, and algorithms in the field of parallel robot based machine
tools. In addition families of new alternative mechanical architectures
which can be used for machine tools with parallel architecture are
introduced. Given equal importance is the design of mechanism systems
such as kinematic analysis, stiffness analysis, kinetostatic modeling,
and optimization.
