Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Six Degree of Freedom ...
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A.1 CASSoM<br />
APPENDIX A<br />
DOCUMENTATIONS OF DEVELOPED SOFTWARES<br />
CASSoM st<strong>and</strong>s for Computer Aided Structural Synthesis <strong>of</strong> Manipulators. It is<br />
mainly a calculation tool for the first step <strong>of</strong> structural synthesis in parallel manipulators.<br />
Using CASSoM, it is possible to find the values <strong>of</strong> C (platform connections), bv (vacant<br />
branches), jb (# joints in a branch) <strong>and</strong> B (total number <strong>of</strong> branches) <strong>of</strong> a parallel manipulator.<br />
The required inputs are λ (DOF <strong>of</strong> workspace), W (DOF <strong>of</strong> mechanism), number <strong>and</strong> types <strong>of</strong><br />
platforms to be used. The program uses the formulations <strong>and</strong> algorithm presented in chapter 3.<br />
A screenshot is given in figure A.1. The program in its current state is fully functional.<br />
CASSoM is a SDI (single document interface) style program. The programming language<br />
used is Borl<strong>and</strong> Delphi 6.0. Delphi is a visual programming language based on Pascal.<br />
Figure A.1 – a Screenshot <strong>of</strong> CASSoM<br />
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