Drawing mainly on the concepts of dual space and dual basis in linear algebra and on existing screw theory, this paper presents a novel and systematic approach for the force/motion transmissibility analysis of 6DOF parallel mechanisms. By taking the reciprocal product of a wrench on a twist as a linear functional, the property exhibited by the dual basis allows the formulation of the force/motion transmissibility between the joint space and operation space in an accurate and concise manner. The consistency between the force/motion transmissibility and the minimum singular value of the Jacobian for singularity identification is rigorously proved. This leads to the development of a set of homogeneously dimensionless local and global transmission indices for measuring the closeness to singular configurations as well as for kinematic performance evaluation over a given workspace. A Stewart platform is employed an exemplar to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach.
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