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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Robotics Volume 2011, Article ID 583072, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/583072 Research Article Development and Control of a 5-Axis Reconfigurable Machine Tool Z. M. Bi Department of Engineering, Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Z. M. Bi, biz@ Received 13 January 2011; Revised 19 March 2011; Accepted 4 May 2011 Academic Editor: Yangmin Li Copyright © 2011 Z. M. Bi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The development of a hybrid reconfigurable machine tool has been introduced. The machine tool consists of a tripod-based parallel kinematic machine (PKM) module with three degrees of freedom (DOF) and a serial linear X -Y table with two DOF. The PKM is installed on a gantry system which is capable of reconfiguring its position and orientation. In the design of tripod-based parallel mechanism, a passive link is used to enhance the stiffness and increase the working load. To avoid the buildup of the heat of the extensive actuation, three joints are actuated via the actuators with a constant length. The geometries of the PKM have been optimized for the best and highest accuracy. In this paper, its control system and the prototyping development are focused. An open architecture is applied, the control methodologies are developed and validated, and the corresponding software tools have been implemented for the software reconfiguration of the control system. 1. Introduction various system configurations can be generated by using