Schoenflies displacement

Schoenflies (or Schönflies) displacement (or motion) named after Arthur Moritz Schoenflies is a rigid body motion consisting of linear motion in three dimensional space plus one orientation around an axis with fixed direction.[1] In robotic manipulation this is a common motion as many pick and place operations require moving an object from one plane and placing it with a different orientation onto another parallel plane (e.g., placement of components on a circuit board). These robots are commonly called Schoenflies-motion generators.[2]

Because the SCARA manipulator was one of the first manipulators providing similar motion, this is often referred to as SCARA-type motion.[3] Today, many robotic manipulators, including some with parallel kinematic architecture, are used in industry for applications ranging from the manufacture of electronics to food processing and packaging industry.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Carricato, Marco (May 2005). "Fully Isotropic Four-Degrees-of-Freedom Parallel Mechanisms for Schoenflies Motion". The International Journal of Robotics Research. 24 (5): 397–414. doi:10.1177/0278364905053688. S2CID 18667868.
  2. ^ "Kinetostatic design of an innovative Schoenflies-motion generator".
  3. ^ Angeles, Jorge; Caro, Stéphane; Khan, Waseem; Morozov, Alexei (July 2006). "The Kinetostatic Design of an Innovative Schönflies Motion Generator". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. 220 (7): 935–943. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.406.7270. doi:10.1243/09544062JMES258. S2CID 5767059.
  4. ^ ABB. "IRB 360 Flexpicker". Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  5. ^ Adept. "Parallel Robot (Delta Robot): Adept Quattro". Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  6. ^ Fanuc. "M-1iA Delta Robot". Retrieved 12 October 2014.