... of cam-follower problems. In both illustrative examples, the PSO method proved to be robust, easy to implement, and suitable for minimizing a wide variety objective functions applicable to the design of cam-follower systems. 08 03 2011 01 07 2011 07 09 2011 07 09 2011 cams...

... profile can be obtained. The phenomenon of twice engagement is discussed for the first time. 03 11 2009 22 10 2010 06 01 2011 06 01 2011 cams (mechanical) drives geometry shear modulus splines (mechanical components) springs (mechanical) Since their invention...

...Pastorelli Stefano; Almondo Andrea; Sorli Massimo The paper presents a comparison of performance for a cam transmission of an engine valve train operating with a mechanical spring and with a return spring device that uses a pneumatic spring. Dynamic analysis of the cam mechanism is performed...

... of the corresponding parts in the geared (cam) chain. A geared (cam) mechanism is a more complex mechanical system including simple joints, multiple joints, and high pairs (geared and cam pairs). It is obtained by adding a series of meshing gears (cams) to a basic kinematic chain of planar or spatial linkages. Due...

... problem for which an analytical solution exists. 02 06 2008 24 06 2009 03 09 2009 cams (mechanical) convex programming design engineering polynomials servomotors splines (mechanical components) A core design problem in motion systems driven by cams and servomotors...

... expression of the upper and lower bounds on motor torque, and (iii) a convex quadratic energy objective function for servomotor driven systems. 02 06 2008 01 07 2009 03 09 2009 cams (mechanical) convex programming servomotors splines (mechanical components) torque A core...

... – 362 . 10.1115/1.2901952 Chakraborty , J. , and Ghande , S. G. , 1977 , Kinematics and Geometry of Planar and Spatial Cam Mechanism , Wiley , New York . The actual level of acceleration needed to return the follower to its origin after the acting profile must be computed...

... of curvature, and contact stress, and also reduces the residual vibrations caused by deviations in actual cam speed or system damping ratio from their design values. 15 02 2008 27 12 2008 20 03 2009 cams (mechanical) damping splines (mathematics) vibration control vibrations...

... actuators cams (mechanical) couplings design engineering 1 2 Whatever the power of control engineering and informatics, even today, one cannot turn poor mechanics into a good machine (Van Brussel ( 1 )). With this in mind, the present paper focuses on optimization of mechanical design...

... is at infinity along that direction. From the help of the secondary adjacent link, we can easily pinpoint the location of I 19 . The numerical results of this example are listed in Table 4 , which also appear to be very satisfactory. 15 06 2007 18 10 2007 15 04 2008 cams...

... Erhöhung der Leistungsfähigkeit und Betriebssicherheit von Maschinen und Geräten ,” Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Technischen Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt , 14 ( 1 ), pp. 51 – 59 . Nishioka , M. , 1995 , “ State of the Art of Torque Compensation Cam Mechanisms ,” Proceedings of the Ninth...

... of a linkage mechanism with an integrated cam mechanism to eliminate high harmonic component of the output motion. The mechanism may be synthesized using any existing linkage mechanism synthesis technique. In the present study, a cam mechanism is synthesized to eliminate all high harmonic components...

... for the structure and transmission optimization. Finally, an epicyclic cam-roller speed reducer is designed and prototyped. 25 01 2006 12 08 2006 power transmission (mechanical) design engineering rolling friction mechanical contact gears cams (mechanical) The synthesis and design...

... to Profile Generation of Planar Cam Mechanisms ,” ASME J. Mech. Des. 1050-0472 10.1115/1.1637652 , 126 , pp. 183 – 188 . Andresen , U. , and Singhose , W. , 2004 , “ A Simple Procedure for Modifying High-Speed Cam Profiles for Vibration Reduction ,” ASME J. Mech. Des. 1050-0472...

... resulting in many different expressions depending on the interpretation of the planar Euler–Savary equation. This work deals with the interpretation where contacting surfaces are taken as the spatial analog to the contacting planar curves. 20 07 2005 13 07 2006 geometry gears cams...

... customization procedure, permitting the use of a cam-driven component in a wider variety of end applications. 15 07 2005 12 05 2006 cams (mechanical) force control vibration control cams vibration control Machines using cam-driven followers can be the source of unwanted...

... an Inverted Cam Mechanism ,” ASME J. Mech. Des. 1050-0472 10.1115/1.1876452 , 127 , pp. 887 – 900 . Buzzetti , M. , “ Polishing Apparatus and Method ,” US Patent No. 6,454,631 B1 , (24 September, 2002 ). Chen , F. Y. , 1982 , Mechanics and Design of Cam Mechanisms , Pergamon...

...D. Chablat; J. Angeles The design of a novel prismatic drive is reported in this paper. This transmission is based on Slide-o-Cam , a cam mechanism with multiple rollers mounted on a common translating follower. The design of Slide-o-Cam was reported elsewhere. This drive thus provides pure-rolling...

... synthesis is addressed, and interference avoidance is discussed. An embodiment of the concept is also included. industrial manipulators cams (mechanical) couplings design manipulator dynamics collision avoidance spherical Stephenson mechanism dimensional synthesis nonlinear least-square...

... inverted cam mechanism (ICM), a simple, cam-based input torque balancing mechanism. It was already introduced in the 1950s, but the design methodologies proposed by Meyer zur Capellen (1964) and Michelin (1979) are, respectively, erroneous or too rough an approximation, and are corrected here...