Market assessment: 6 degree-of-freedom planar motion tables

许多工业应用需要在三维空间中自动定位小物体。例如，在装配线上，消费者设备通常由机器人部分组装。当设备移动经过装配线上的机器人时，需要对设备的位置进行小的调整以将设备的特定方面呈现给机器人，而不是移动机器人。为了这个目的和许多其他目的，经常使用平面运动平台。 平面运动载物台由平面载物台组成，该平面载物台可以在两个维度（水平、X-Y）上移动并稍微调整其高度（Z）或角度（俯仰、滚动、偏航）。通常，需要非常平滑和精确的移动。该项目旨在评估一个理想的运动平台，该平台在X和Y方向上具有长行程（能够水平移动平台“远”），在Z方向上具有毫米到厘米的行程，能够围绕所有三个轴旋转，无摩擦，高速，低成本和复杂性。

Many industrial applications require the automated positioning of a small object in three dimensional space. For instance, on an assembly line, consumer devices are often assembled in part by robots. As the device moves past the robot on the assembly line, small adjustments of the position of the device need to be made to present a particular aspect of the device to the robot, rather than moving the robot. For this and many other purposes, planar motion stages are often used. A planar motion stage consists of a flat stage that can move in two (horizontal, X-Y) dimensions and adjust slightly its height (Z) or angle (pitch, roll, yaw). Typically, very smooth and precise movement is desired. This project is to evaluate an ideal motion stage, which would have a long stroke in X and Y (the ability to move the stage "far" horizontally), millimeter to cm stroke in Z, the ability to rotate around all three axes, no friction, high speed and low cost and complexity.