Abstract

The Canadarm2, also named Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), is a 7-joint redundant manipulator. Without spherical wrists, the singularity analysis and avoidance of these manipulators are very difficult. In this paper, a method is presented to analytically identify its singular configurations based on the elementary transformation of Jacobian matrix. Firstly, we constructed a general kinematics model to describe them in a united manner. Correspondingly, the differential kinematics equation and the modified form are derived. Secondly, the singularity conditions are isolated and collected in a 3×4 sub-matrix by several times row transformation of the modified Jacobian matrix, which is partitioned into a block-triangle matrix. Finally, all the singularity configurations are determined by analyzing the rank degeneracy conditions of the 3×4 sub-matrix. The proposed method isolates the singularity conditions, and collects them in a 3×4 sub-matrix, largely reducing the computation workload.

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