Optimal Design of the Modular Joint Drive Train for Enhancing Cobot Load Capacity and Dynamic Performance

Automation advancements prompts the extensive integration of collaborative robot(cobot)across a range of industries.Compared to the commonly used design approach of increasing the payload-to-weight ratio of cobot to enhance load capacity,equal attention should be paid to the dynamic response characteristics of cobot during the design process to make the cobot more flexible.In this paper,a new method for designing the drive train parameters of cobot is proposed.Firstly,based on the analysis of factors influencing the load capacity and dynamic response characteristics,design criteria for both aspects are established for cobot with all optimization design criteria normalized within the design domain.Secondly,with the cobot in the horizontal pose,the motor design scheme is discretized and it takes the joint motor diameter and gearbox speed ratio as optimization design variables.Finally,all the discrete values of the optimization objectives are obtained through the enumeration method and the Pareto front is used to select the optimal solution through multi-objective optimization.Base on the cobot design method proposed in this paper,a six-axis cobot is designed and compared with the commercial cobot.The result shows that the load capacity of the designed cobot in this paper reaches 8.4 kg,surpassing the 5 kg load capacity commercial cobot which is used as a benchmark.The minimum resonance frequency of the joints is 42.70 Hz.

The Impulse Excitation Joint Servo Drive Design and Adaptive Backstepping Control of Humanoid Robots

This study aims to explore the humanoid robot joint servo drive integration design and adaptive backstepping control. To make the humanoid robot have explosive power as the human does, simply increasing the power output of the motor of a lightweight design cannot meet the demand of moving heavy objects and so on. Moreover, the backstepping control algorithm is designed to implement the dual-arm cooperative control. The joint servo drive is redesigned in the present study, which can drive the motor at a limitation state when needed output high-voltage pulse can stimulate the motor so that the motor can produce an instantaneous large torque. A miniature design scheme is presented in this study for the servo drive, explaining the design method of each part module. The ex- perimental data illustrate that the servo drive can produce an output torque greater than the rate of the high-voltage pulse that stimulates the motor. Knowledge of the control of humanoid robot moving a heavy object has important practical significance. The present study provides a complete actual problem and exhibits a real practical use case which can be used to speed up the explosive humanoid robot arms.

DIRECT DIGITAL DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF MESHING IN WORM-GEAR DRIVE

A direct digital design method （DDDM） of worm-gear drive is proposed. It is directly based on the simulation of manufacturing process and completely different from the conventional modeling method. The loaded tooth contact analysis （LTCA） method is analyzed, in which the advanced surface to surface searching technique is included. The influence of misalignment errors and contact deformations on contact zone and transmission error （TE） is discussed. Combined modification approach on worm tooth surface is presented. By means of DDDM and LTCA, it is very conven- ient to verify the effect of worm-gear drive＇s modification approach. The analysis results show that, the modification in profile direction reduces the sensitivity of worm-gear drive to misalignment errors and the modification in longitudinal direction decreases the TE. Thus the optimization design of worm-gear drive can be achieved prior to the actual manufacturing process.

Robust Optimum Design of Thrust Hydrodynamic Bearings for Hard Disk Drives

This paper describes the robust optimum design which combines the geometrical optimization method proposed by Hashimoto and statistical method. Recently, 2.5″ hard disk drives (HDDs) are widely used for mobile devices such as laptops, video cameras and car navigation systems. In mobile applications, high durability towards external vibrations and shocks are essentials to the bearings of HDD spindle motor. In addition, the bearing characteristics are influenced by manufacturing error because of small size of the bearings of HDD. In this paper, the geometrical optimization is carried out to maximize the bearing stiffness using sequential quadratic programming to improve vibration characteristics. Additionally, the bearing stiffness is analyzed considering dimensional tolerance of the bearing using statistical method. The dimensional tolerance is assumed to distribute according to the Gaussian distribution, and then the bearing stiffness is estimated by combining the expectation and standard deviation. As a result, in the robust optimum design, new groove geometry of bearing can be obtained in which the bearing stiffness is four times higher than the stiffness of conventional spiral groove bearing. Moreover, the bearing has lower variability compared with the result of optimum design neglecting dimensional tolerance.

Lightweight Design of Automobile Drive Shaft Based on the Characteristics of Low Amplitude Load Strengthening

There are two kinds of internationally recognized approaches in terms of lightweight design.One is based on fatigue accumulated damage theory to achieve better reliability by optimal structural design; another is to use high performance lightweight materials.The former method takes very few considerations on the structural strengthening effects caused by the massive small loads in service.In order to ensure safety,the design is usually conservative,but the strength potential of the component is not fully exerted.In the latter method,cost is the biggest obstacle to lightweight materials in automotive applications.For the purpose of light weighting design on a fuel cell vehicle,the new design method is applied on drive shafts.The method is based on the low amplitude load strengthening characteristics of the material,and allows the stress,corresponding to test load,to enter into the strengthened range of the material.Under this condition,the light weighting design should assure that the reliability of the shaft is not impaired,even maximizes the strength potential of machine part in order to achieve the weight reduction and eventually to reduce the cost.At last,the feasibility of the design is verified by means of strength analysis and modal analysis based on the CAD model of light weighted shaft.The design applies to the load case of half shaft in independent axle,also provides technological reference for the structural lightweight design of vehicles and other machineries.

Design Research on Drive System of Underwater Tapping Machine

The underwater tapping machine is composed of a center bit, a tapping cutter, a seal box, a main drive box, a boring bar assembly, a envelop, a gear case, a counter and so on. The drive system in underwater tapping machine consists of a worm drive, a gear drive system and a screw drive. The worm drive is in the main drive box. The worm is connected with a hydraulic motor and driven by the hydraulic motor. The gear drive system is a combined gear train which is the combinations of the fixed axes and differential gear train in the gear case. On the one hand, by means of the fixed axes gear trains the turn and power of transmission shaft are transferred to the boring bar and the screw rod, causing differential turn between the boring bar and the screw rod. On the other hand, the turns of the boring bar and the screw rod are transferred to the differential gear train. The differential gear train is used to drive a special counter to count axial travel of the boring bar. The screw drive is composed of a feed screw and a nut on the boring bar. There is the differential turn between the boring bar and the feed screw. By means of the nut, the boring bar can feed automatically. With the movement of the sliding gear 7 in the gear case, the designed drive system can also be provided with the ability of fast forward and fast backward movement of the boring bar in its idle motion, resulting in the increase of the tapping efficiency.

Active Design Method of Tooth Profiles for Cycloid Drive Based on Meshing Efficiency

An active design method of tooth profiles for cycloid gears based on their meshing efficiency is proposed.This method takes the meshing efficiency as one of the design variables to determine the tooth profiles.The calculation method for the meshing efficiency of planetary transmission is analyzed and the equation of the meshing efficiency is deduced.Relationships between the meshing efficiency,the radius of the pin wheel and the eccentric distance are revealed.The design constraint quations and the strength constraint quations are deduced.On the basis of this,a design procedure is laid out.Some examples using different input parameters are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.A dynamic simulation of the rigid flexible coupling of cycloid gears is also presented.The results show that the proposed design method is more flexible to control the tooth profiles by changing the input values of the transmission efficiency.

Design and Test Analysis of a Solar Array Root Hinge Drive Assembly

A root hinge drive assembly is preferred in place of the classical viscous damper in a large solar array system.It has advantages including better deployment control and higher reliability.But the traditional single degree of freedom model should be improved.A multiple degrees of freedom dynamics model is presented for the solar arrays deployment to guide the drive assembly design.The established model includes the functions of the torsion springs,the synchronization mechanism and the lock-up impact.A numerical computation method is proposed to solve the dynamics coupling problem.Then considering the drive torque requirement calculated by the proposed model,a root hinge drive assembly is developed based on the reliability engineering design methods,and dual actuators are used as a redundancy design.Pseudo-efficiency is introduced and the major factors influencing the（pseudo-）efficiency of the gear mechanism designed with high reduction ratio are studied for further test data analysis.A ground prototype deployment test is conducted to verify the capacity of the drive assembly.The test device consists of a large-area solar array system and a root hinge drive assembly.The RHDA development time is about 43 s.The theoretical drive torque is compared with the test values which are obtained according to the current data and the reduction efficiency analysis,and the results show that the presented model and the calibration methods are proper enough.

技术与商业驱动的群智创新设计

目的结合人工智能时代下社会面临的新问题及现代设计的新使命,提出了技术与商业驱动的群智创新设计思维。方法以设计全球化、新一代人工智能及数字化生存现状为时代背景,阐述了群智创新设计在新时代下的创新本质,并从技术和商业的多元视角阐述了群智创新设计的多元内涵。结果构建了以设计为牵引,技术与商业驱动的群智创新设计模型,并结合具体案例阐述了群智创新设计的优势。结论群智创新设计注重智能技术和群体智慧的结合,是一场复杂系统层面的螺旋式创新演化。以设计为牵引、技术为支撑、商业为激励的群智创新设计方法借用现代网络平台优势及大数据、人工智能、区块链等信息技术赋能,利用群体智慧的协同作用,聚集社会中更多、更好的知识源,以助力创新创造,为社会创造共赢价值。

促进幼儿深度学习的项目式活动中驱动性问题链的设计

驱动性问题是项目式学习的核心与灵魂,是项目式活动的抓手,能够促进幼儿的深度学习,是培养幼儿核心素养的重要途径。探讨驱动性问题的内涵及设计,从教与学角度及项目学习的基本要素角度着手,分析驱动性问题在项目式活动中的引领作用,形成驱动性问题解决模式,用驱动性问题链引领项目活动的开展,促进幼儿的学习及深层次发展。

基于驾驶模拟的超车仿真教学实验设计

道路交通运输专业具有多学科融合、紧密结合实践的特点,但许多交通专业课程的实践教学环节往往会受到场地大小、条件不可控、重复性差和实际道路危险性等不利因素的限制而无法顺利开展。为提升学生的实践能力与课程参与度,基于驾驶模拟技术,探讨可用于交通仿真、道路交通安全及交通行为分析等课程教学的超车仿真教学实验项目,教学实验以锻炼学生分析解决问题能力和实践操作能力为目标,详细地设计实验流程与实践教学内容,并将该实验项目在道路交通安全、交通仿真等课程的实践环节进行应用,为驾驶模拟系统在教学实验中的应用提供参考。

港口重载AGV驱动防滑设计

针对港口重载自动导引运输车(AGV)工作中遇到的过度滑转危险,文中提出一种基于最佳滑转率控制的驱动防滑设计。该设计根据港口环境特点建立路面附着特性模型;选用T-S型模糊控制器进行港口路面模糊识别设计,对峰值纵向附着系数及最佳滑转率进行识别,并将识别结果用于最佳滑转率控制中,进而提升港口AGV驱动防滑性能。通过单一路面与对接路面识别试验,验证了港口路面模糊识别器具有准确识别能力。

长途货运司机疲劳驾驶原因分析及对策

为减少长途运输中驾驶员因疲劳驾驶对个人和社会造成的严重损失,从驾驶员生理和心理两大因素、车辆和环境三个角度对货运司机疲劳驾驶原因进行分析,并针对不同问题对驾驶员开展安全教育活动、优化座椅和驾驶室设计、采取多种措施来改善长途运输的环境条件以及在货车上设置主动安全装置等提出了相应的改进对策,为以后的驾驶室设计提供了参考依据。

运动解耦且大工作空间三平移机构拓扑设计

根据基于方位特征(POC)方程的并联机构拓扑设计方法和运动解耦设计原理,提出一个运动解耦性优异的单回路三平移子并联机构;设计一类4个具有正向位置符号化、部分运动解耦性且具有较大工作空间的三平移(3T)并联机构;对这类机构进行拓扑特性分析,得到相同的方位特征集(POC)、自由度(DOF)、耦合度(κ)、运动解耦性等主要拓扑特性;对其中一个机构进行运动学、动力学性能分析。根据基于拓扑特征运动学建模原理,求出其符号化位置正反解,以及速度、加速度曲线;基于推导出的位置逆解公式,分析机构的奇异位形及工作空间;根据基于序单开链的虚功原理,进行其动力学建模与分析,求解出机构的驱动力。

一种蜗杆传动多目标优化设计方法

蜗杆传动的传统设计方法主要是设计者借鉴已有的设计实例和经验,首先试选基本参数,再通过校核确定该参数是否满足使用要求。若不满足要求,则重新选择参数进行校核,若满足要求则作为最终的设计方案。由于不同设计者选择的参数一般不同,就会导致同一设计要求出现不同设计方案的现象,且方案一般不是最佳。多目标优化设计方法在排除传统设计方法人为主观因素的基础上,以与蜗杆制造成本和传动性能紧密相关的蜗轮齿冠体积、蜗杆传动中心距、滑动速度等目标为优化对象,建立优化目标函数,确定设计约束条件,利用有关软件优化工具箱寻找最优解进行优化。结果表明,多目标优化设计与常规设计相比,在传动效率小幅提升的前提下,多目标优化设计的蜗轮齿冠体积大幅下降65.42%,传动中心距缩小24.8%,优化设计效果显著,优化后机构综合性能更强。

智能技术赋能创意设计推动数字创意产业发展新动能研究

以数字创意产业发展的时代语境为背景,通过智能创意设计融入数字创意产业全周期的应用路径,结合案例分析,提出以新场景和新产品形成新内容、以新产品和新服务形成新业态、以新服务和新体验构建新商业模式的动能激发机理,为智能创意设计在数字创意产业中的应用提供指导,为新质生产力的培育指明方向和路径.

产教融合背景下基于“四轮驱动”机制的高职建筑设计类课程教学创新与实践

根据高职人才的创新创业能力培养要求,结合建筑设计专业的特点,针对传统课程项目化教学模式的不足,提出构建高职院校“建筑设计”课程项目“意识引动”“平台助动”“教学推动”“研赛带动”的“四轮驱动”教学机制;深化产教融合,以培养学生创新创业能力为目标,以“双师型”建筑设计大师创新创业工作室为平台,针对学生个性化需求,进行分学期阶段、分阶段项目、分项目任务、分任务内容的分类培养,使“建筑设计”课程项目教学实现“产、教、学、研、赛、创”相互融合,为高职建筑设计类课程项目教学模式的创新与实践提供参考。

滚子包络环面蜗杆传动副接触特性分析

建立滚子包络环面蜗杆传动副的数学模型和三维精确实体模型,在传动比和中心距确定的情况下,分析不同蜗杆喉部最小直径、滚子直径对传动副的齿面接触特性,探讨中心距误差、蜗杆轴向误差、蜗轮轴向误差和轴交角误差4类装配误差对传动副齿面啮合侧隙的影响规律。结果表明,蜗杆喉部最小直径、滚子直径的变化会影响齿面等效应力,最大等效应力随蜗杆喉部最小直径的变化呈“V”字形;中心距误差、蜗杆轴向误差会导致传动副齿面法向出现啮合间隙或过盈情况。蜗轮轴向误差、轴交角误差对传动副的齿面啮合区影响不大,但会出现一侧过盈增加、一侧过盈减少的现象,因此应将装配误差控制在一定范围内。

LF精炼炉钢包回转台驱动系统设计与分析

LF炉是整个钢铁精炼工艺过程中最为重要的设备,具有脱硫、脱氧,微调钢水成分的作用,对提高钢水品质具有重要作用;是每个钢企生产优钢特钢的必备设备。现有LF精炼炉主要结构型式分为双车式、回转台式以及电极旋转式。回转台式LF炉其特点是利用回转台的自转将钢水从等待工位转运钢水至冶炼工位进行冶炼;回转台式LF炉具有占地面积小,使用安全可靠,维护保养工作量小,效率高等优势。回转台作为LF精炼炉的重要组成设备,对整个精炼炉安全运行有着重要的作用;而回转台的平稳运行又取决于驱动装置设计的可靠性。针对回转台的驱动装置设计进行分析。通过对回转台驱动系统基础数据的计算、电机和减速机的选型,提出一个安全、可靠的设计方案,以便其他设计者进行参考。

微小流量旋转直驱伺服阀传控特性分析与优化

针对无人机、战术弹、支线民航等小型飞行器航空发动机燃油计量系统与推力矢量系统微小流量的伺服控制需求,就旋转直驱伺服阀偏心球副传动接口与非全周节流阀口等关键结构进行了尺寸约束设计分析,并就节流阀口宽度、球副偏心距以及驱动电机转动惯量等重要参数进行了优化分析,给出了伺服阀结构设计的优化区间。在此基础上,研究提出了电机转角与电流双闭环控制方法,幅频响应实测结果与理论分析较为一致,200 Hz以上高频响应满足实际需求,且双闭环控制方法大幅降低了伺服阀响应超调并提升了稳定性。