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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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