Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis
Robotic Total Stations (RTS) are fully automated theodolites with electronic distance measurement (EDM) that include a number of additional tools (e.g., camera, laser rangefinder, onboard computer, and tracking software, etc.) enabling them to work autonomously. The added tools make RTSs able to tra...
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| description | Robotic Total Stations (RTS) are fully automated theodolites with electronic distance measurement (EDM) that include a number of additional tools (e.g., camera, laser rangefinder, onboard computer, and tracking software, etc.) enabling them to work autonomously. The added tools make RTSs able to track mobile targets on civil structures thus opening to the use of RTSs in structural monitoring. Unfortunately, the available RTSs are able to track a target up to a motion rate of 3 Hz. Reducing mobile masses is a viable design strategy for extending this frequency border. Such a strategy is pursued in this study by proposing the use of parallel pointing systems (PPS) as basic mechanical architectures for RTSs. The literature on PPSs is reviewed and the applicable PPS architectures are selected. Successively, the selected architectures are sized according to RTSs’ functional requirements, and the positioning precision of the sized mechanisms is evaluated. The result of this study is that there are three PPS architectures suitable for RTSs, whose detailed comparison is also presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a92bfdd2ef94eaeb251a425a4024e652024-01-26T17:24:23ZengMDPI AGMachines2075-17022024-01-011215410.3390/machines12010054Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy AnalysisHenrique Simas0Raffaele Di Gregorio1Roberto Simoni2Marco Gatti3Raul Guenther Lab. of Applied Robotics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-900, SC, BrazilLaboratory of Mechatronics and Virtual Prototyping (LaMaViP), Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, 1, 44100 Ferrara, ItalyDepartment of Mobility Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Joinville 89219-600, SC, BrazilLaboratory of Mechatronics and Virtual Prototyping (LaMaViP), Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, 1, 44100 Ferrara, ItalyRobotic Total Stations (RTS) are fully automated theodolites with electronic distance measurement (EDM) that include a number of additional tools (e.g., camera, laser rangefinder, onboard computer, and tracking software, etc.) enabling them to work autonomously. The added tools make RTSs able to track mobile targets on civil structures thus opening to the use of RTSs in structural monitoring. Unfortunately, the available RTSs are able to track a target up to a motion rate of 3 Hz. Reducing mobile masses is a viable design strategy for extending this frequency border. Such a strategy is pursued in this study by proposing the use of parallel pointing systems (PPS) as basic mechanical architectures for RTSs. The literature on PPSs is reviewed and the applicable PPS architectures are selected. Successively, the selected architectures are sized according to RTSs’ functional requirements, and the positioning precision of the sized mechanisms is evaluated. The result of this study is that there are three PPS architectures suitable for RTSs, whose detailed comparison is also presented.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/12/1/54parallel mechanismpointing systemdimensional synthesisaccuracy analysisrobotic total station |
| spellingShingle | Henrique Simas Raffaele Di Gregorio Roberto Simoni Marco Gatti Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis Machines parallel mechanism pointing system dimensional synthesis accuracy analysis robotic total station |
| title | Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis |
| title_full | Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis |
| title_short | Parallel Pointing Systems Suitable for Robotic Total Stations: Selection, Dimensional Synthesis, and Accuracy Analysis |
| title_sort | parallel pointing systems suitable for robotic total stations selection dimensional synthesis and accuracy analysis |
| topic | parallel mechanism pointing system dimensional synthesis accuracy analysis robotic total station |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/12/1/54 |
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