Compliance Analysis of Mechanisms with Spatial Continuous Compliance in the Context of Screw Theory and Lie Groups

This paper investigates the compliance effect on both serial and parallel mechanisms based on study of deflections of a finite segment of elastic beam with spatial compliance and applies eigenvectors and eigenvalues to identify principal screws in the mechanisms and parallel devices with spatial continuous compliance. With the analysis, compliance characteristics of both serial mechanisms and parallel devices can be identified with effect of compliance. Case studies are presented with numerical examples.