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Hello world,
I'm currently working on a PhD thesis about the control of a very fast
parallel robot we developped here at EPFL (Swiss Fed. Institute of
Technology). It's called the Delta and we believe it's one of the fastest
(the very fastest ?) robot for pick & place tasks. A commercial version
of this machine is used in chocolate packaging industry (remember we're
in Switzerland...)...
The Delta is functionally equivalent to a cartesian carrier (3DOF). It
can move a mass of 10g along an half-elliptic trajectory of 50 cm big
axis and 20 cm small axis (10 cm heigth) in about 0.125 s, the load being
accelerated by about 300 m/s2, speed of end-effector reaching 3 m/s
I'd like to have a more precise idea of the performances of other robots,
other designs to add a valuable comparison in my report. If you own, use,
study, have seen fast manipulators, please let me know (by mail or on the
net).
Thanks and Best Wishes to you all for '93.

Ph. Guglielmetti                guglielmetti@elia.epfl.ch
Institut d'Automatique
EPFL