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1 INTRODUCTION<br />

1.1 MOTIVATION<br />

The company ELAU GmbH which is the global Packaging Solution Center for Schneider<br />

Electric has developed an own Delta-3 robot controlled with ELAU GmbH own motors, drive<br />

units and controller unit.<br />

This Master Thesis treats the modeling of the Delta-3 robot actuated with ELAU GmbH own<br />

motors and drive units. Also the kinematics for a Delta-3 robot is implemented to be able to see<br />

where the traveling plate has for position for different arm angle configurations.<br />

1.2 SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE USED IN THESIS<br />

To simulate the Delta-3 robot actuated with ELAU GmbH own controller, drive units and<br />

motors Matlab Simulink was used. To create trajectory motions for the Delta-3 robot to use in<br />

Simulink ELAU GmbH own programming software EPAS-4 was used. These trajectories was<br />

first simulated in EPAS-4 then transferred into Matlab Simulink so the same reference was<br />

used in both the Simulink model when simulating the robot and in EPAS-4 when controlling<br />

the real robot. When creating trajectories for only one motor simulation ELAU GMBHSs own<br />

motion toolkit ECAM-4 was used. The computer software Mathematica was used to solve the<br />

equations for kinematic transformation and the dynamics equations for the Delta-3 robot.<br />

1.3 NOTATIONS<br />

The following notations are used in the thesis.<br />

1.3.1 ACRONYMS<br />

The following acronyms are used:<br />

TCP Tool center point<br />

DOF Degree of freedom<br />

1.3.2 VARIABLES AND PARAMETERS<br />

The following variables and parameters are used in the thesis.<br />

{R} reference frame at the base plate<br />

{Ri}<br />

R<br />

iRz<br />

reference frame for arm i<br />

transformation matrix between frames {Ri} and {R}<br />

θ1<br />

angle of the first upper arm attached to motor 1<br />

θ2<br />

angle of the second upper arm attached to motor 2<br />

angle of the third upper arm attached to motor 3<br />

θ3<br />

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Public Report ELAU GmbH, Marktheidenfeld<br />

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