Re: Open (i think) design for a parallel robot (reprap may be interested)

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Schmitz"
<denschmitz@...> wrote:

>
> I was only thinking of the 3dof machines for the glue-gun application as
> opposed to the 6dof stewart platforms. As near as I can tell, the

transforms

> for those don't have singularities, but I could be mistaken.

In that case I'm confused with the reference to that design.

The singularities are in the joints, it depends on the joint type but
certainly the easy to build types (like universal) can cause problems,
just and example of one problem.

Graham