Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Systems – ICMaS

Published by Editura Academiei Române, ISSN 1842-3183

Vol. No. 1,  2006

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing Systems Department

Bucharest, Romania, 26 – 27 October, 2006

Abstract: The paper describes the architecture of the virtual prototyping environments that can be presently set up to try to make the best from a concurrent mechatronic design of mechanical devices and control systems: though a single comprehensive tool is not available on the market at the moment, a proper integration of different software modules can do the job. As an example, a hybrid kinematic architecture for mechanical assembly is presented, based on the functional splitting of complex tasks between two cooperating parallel kinematics machines with limited mobility and equipped by proper interaction control.

Prof. Massimo CALLEGARI, Università Politecnica delle

Marche, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Via Brecce Bianche s/n,

Ancona, Italy, E-mail: m.callegari@univpm.it