STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS CALIBRATION BY POSTURE MEASUREMENT ON PARALLEL 6-DOF PLATFORM

Some approaches to measure parallel 6-degree of freedom platform's posture statically and to calibrate theplatform's actual structural parameters by measuring a series of the platform's varying postures are studied. In the casewhere high posture accuracy is required reiatively, to obtain the platform's actual structural parameters is very important.Three dimensions measurement with 2 theodolites are used to obtain the platform's postures statically and Newton itera-tive method is adopted to calibrate structural parameters. Some measures taken in the measurement and the calibration arediscussed in detail. And the experiment results of the platform's posture control before and after the calibration are given.The results show that the platform's posture control accuracy after the calibration is improved notably.