Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the time-varying and coupling dynamic characteristics of a 3-DOF parallel tool head. Design/methodology/approach From the view of control, a new dynamic index of a 3-DOF parallel tool head is proposed based on the dynamic model in the...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a modified parameter identification method and a novel measurement method to calibrate a 3 degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) parallel tool head. This parallel tool head is a parallel mechanism module in a five-axes hybrid machine tool. The proposed...