Manufacturing Technology Today

S. Muruganandam ¹, S. Pugazhenthi ²

Affiliations
1 School of Mechanical Engg., SASTRA University, Thanjavur, IN
2 School of Mechanical Engg., SASTRA University, Thanjavur, IN

Abstract

The workspace and stiffness of hexapod machine tool are configuration dependent and vary dynamically. Hence, work piece is to be located in such a way that the hexapod will have high stiffness and required workspace area. This paper presents a methodology for finding the maximum stiffness of the hexapod machine tool, which in turn can be used to find the optimal location of the work piece. For finding the location of maximum stiffness, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used.

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