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Though, considerable research has been paid to the investigations of the three-dimensional (3D) constant orientation workspace or position workspace of parallel manipulators, very few works exist on the topic of the 3D orientation workspace, especially the nonsingular orientation workspace and practical orientation workspace. This paper addresses the orientation workspace analysis of a special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulators in which the moving and base platforms are two similar semisymmetrical hexagons. Based on the half-angle transformation, a polynomial expression of 13 degree that represents the orientation singularity locus of this special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulators at a fixed position is derived and graphical representations of the orientation singularity locus of this special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough manipulators are illustrated with examples to demonstrate the result. Exploiting this half-angle transformation and the inverse kinematics solution of this special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulators, a discretization method is proposed for computing the orientation workspace of this special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulators taking limitations of active and passive joints and the link interference all into consideration. Based on this algorithm, this paper also presents a new discretization method for computing the nonsingular orientation workspace of this class of the manipulators, which not only can satisfy all the kinematics demand of this class of the manipulators but also can guarantee the manipulator is nonsingular in the whole orientation workspace, and the practical orientation workspace of this class of the manipulators, which not only can guarantee the manipulator is nonsingular and will never encounter any kinematic interference but also can satisfy the demand of the orientation workspace with a regular shape in practical application, respectively. Examples of a 6\/6-SPS Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulator of this special class are given to demonstrate these theoretical results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0263574709990841","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,1,15]],"date-time":"2010-01-15T10:23:09Z","timestamp":1263550989000},"page":"989-1000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Orientation workspace analysis of a special class of the Stewart\u2013Gough parallel manipulators"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Yi","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhen","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weixi","family":"Ji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,1,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mechmachtheory.2004.02.010"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s001700050176"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00170-004-2160-1"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref27","first-page":"5","volume-title":"The Tenth IASTED on Robotics and Application 2004\/RA 447-017","author":"Cao","year":"2004"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref23","volume-title":"Theory and control of parallel robotic mechanisms manipulator","author":"Huang","year":"1997"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0263574703005034"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0094-114X(00)00031-8"},{"key":"S0263574709990841_ref5","first-page":"31","article-title":"Workspace and singularity analysis of a novel six-DOF parallel manipulator","volume":"1","author":"Tahmasebi","year":"1994","journal-title":"J. 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