This paper addresses the dynamic balancing of a planar three-degree-of-freedom parallel mechanism. A mechanism is said to be dynamically balanced if, for any motion of the mechanism, the reaction forces and torques at the base are identically equal to zero, at all times. The proposed mechanism is based on legs consisting of five-bar parallelogram linkages. The balancing equations are first obtained. Then, optimization is used in order to minimize the mass and inertia of the moving links. Finally, a numerical verification of the dynamic balancing is provided and the prototype is presented.
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