Questions tagged [kinematics]
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Feedback control of two-link planar manipulator
TL;DR: how can I calculate the disturbance at each joint due to coupling forces in a two-link planar robot manipulator actuated by two independent DC motors?
I'm studying control theory and trying to ...
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Calculating torque needed to climb a graded hill
I've been designing an electric skateboard which is driven by only one of the rear wheels (for the moment). As I was picking out motors for the board, I soon realized I would need to find a balance ...
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Applications of Five-Bar Mechanisms
I have some university work to do based on a real world application with five or six bar mechanism, but I am unable to find such a device. Are there real applications of such mechanisms? I've ...
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How to calculate the velocity of a piston-like linkage?
I ve tried to solve this problem in so many ways but still didn't manage to do it...
What would be the correct way to solve it please?
This arm of this mechanism has a length of 0,2m. The piston has ...
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What do I need to operate this motor?
I am currently designing a tennis ball launcher. I am looking to use the friction wheel approach, where you have the ball passing through 2 spinning wheels and being launched by the frictional force. ...
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4 Gears in a Circular Pattern - Calculating the Proper Distances for Meshing
I have recently been working on a gearbox for a robot. I have this pattern of 4 gears with each gear connected to its 2 neighbors. It looks like this:
You will probably notice something though. ...
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GIM Mechanism Software (Kinematics / Analysis / Synthesis)
I've recently discovered a very awesome software tool for the synthesis and analysis of mechanisms. The tool is called GIM, from Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao, Department of Mechanical Engineering,...
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How to calculate the coupler length in a crank rocker mechanism
I'm trying to learn a bit about building kinematic mechanisms by building a small project. The goal is to be able to open and close a box programmatically via a servo motor.
I have a small box that ...
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How to interpete the formula: $I_{G}\alpha = \dot{\vec{H}}$?
I am having hard time to fully undestand what those formula's actually mean. I know the meaning of each element:
I : moment of inertia
H : angular momentum
$\alpha$: angular acceleration
$\omega$: ...
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Why do 2 points on a mechanism not have the same angular velocities?
Could someone please explain me why the velocity of point P and P' aren't the same? Appearently it is because the angular velocity of point A and B aren't the same.
We are only given that the angular ...
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Questions on machinery terminology
I have some questions in the basics of machinery terminology
Can a spring ever be a link? Most books (eg. Ham et al. 58, Shigley pg. 5) consider links to be rigid. However, I have come across ...
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Degrees of Freedom for Complex Pulley Systems
I'm trying to understand DOF clearly, but this pulley system has me doubting myself. When I try to determine the degrees of freedom, I sum the DOF of each object, and subtract the constraints. for ...
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Gear Ratio of a Stepped Planetary Gearset
I was looking into planetary gearsets, and came upon the concept of a stepped planetary gearset. In the image shown above, if my input was the blue sun gear, the output was the planet gear, and the ...
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How do I call a kinematic assembly that converts rotary motion to sawtooth linear?
I have in mind a device somewhere in between a firearms trigger and a clock escapement. One way it could be constructed is as follows:
A crank would displace a linearly moving slider backwards, so ...
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Universal joint vs Double Universal Joint (CV configuration) kinematics
Concerning this subject, I consulted the following Wikipedia page: Universal joint
where the elementary kinematics equation of the U-joint is stated.
But, a little bit further in the article Double ...
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Modeling rigid body dynamics: Trouble with equations, encountering nonsense answers
Hi, I am working on modeling a simple rigid body dynamic system through a certain range of motion. Here is the picture of the system.
I am trying to solve the system for the variables $x_1'', y_1'', ...
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Problem in the inverse kinematic model of a car like vehicle?
I'm a electrical engineering student and i am building a simulation of a car like vehicle .
As I understand it:
The input for the forward kinematic model are the control
variables and the output is ...
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How to measure / calculate Tait-Bryan angles of a moving platform in SimMechanics
I exported a model of the mechanism created in SolidWorks to SimMechanics in order to explore the possibilities of control. To solve the problem, i need to know the angular position of the mobile ...
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Center of rotation (rigid body)
I know the meaning of (instantaneous) “center of rotation” and “center of zero acceleration” for a rigid body. I know that they do not coincide (in general) and that their positions change with the ...
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Dynamics of a rigid body in a system of two linear drives
I've been trying to solve the dynamics of this system for quite a while, but cannot seem to get the right answer. I've tried solving it with Lagrangian method but I am not so confident with the ...
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Rotating four cylinders with one motor/actuator
I have a setup with 4 cylinders placed next to each other in following configuration. The cylinders are made of .2mm stainless steel. I would ideally want to rotate them along their axis using a ...
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Rotational Motion Kinematics - Not sure how to fix axis of rotation
Hi I am trying to make a CAD model of something like the scoop sampler shown below.
http://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/customers/nuclear/scoop-sampling-tcm92-50918.pdf
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Parameter effects on kinetics of esterification for bio-diesel production
I want to discuss the effect of parameters on the kinetics of esterification for bio-diesel production. In esterification process, temperature effect and molar ration are two important parameters. ...
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How do you find the kinematic degrees of freedom of a mechanism?
In the above mechanism it is required to find the generalized coordinates to write equation of motion of the MDOF system. I just want to ask how do we actually approach such a problem? How to identify ...
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Would a car slip down on a frictionless banked road and situation for friction road
Here , we have a car on a banking road. Considering two cases :
Frictionless and friction surface of the road.
I give an initial velocity to the car by a push for a second. Then , the cases discuss ...
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Firing a bullet on wooden block and then finding the average resistive force by block?
For a Q in which we are firing a bullet of 0.04kg onto a wooden block which is stopped after a distance of 60cm after penetrating inside it. It’s u=90m/s.
For this Q , we can find a=-6750m/s^2. Using$ ...
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To stop or to go around?
Let us we are moving in a car. There is a wall in front of us, we need to decide can we go around it or not. It is known that width of the wall is $w$ and our speed is $v = const$.
What is a simple ...
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Purpose of normalization of Jacobian in a parallel manipulator
I am currently studying a robotics paper, where a normalized frobenius norm of a matrix is calculated as part of determining the condition number of the corresponding linear system of equation:
$\...
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Bending Moment Doubt
I don't understand how bending moment is being calculated in the problem mentioned in the above link. I understand the parts after that i.e. calculating elastic potential and partial derivatives but I ...
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I have the yaw rate, rear wheel speeds, and the radius of tires, how to find x and y speeds?
I only have these 3 data sets:
rear right and left wheel speeds (they change with time)
yaw rate (also changes with time)
constant dynamic rolling radius
How am I supposed to find the directional ...
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What are displacement field and Deformation field?
I am studying mechanics of materials while I came across these terms called the displacement fields and the deformation fields. I am not able to understand the difference between them. Can someone ...
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Torque computation for different attachment point
I have a pretty basic question but I would like to be sure of what I think.
I have a setup like the one in the figure. I have two motors which can generate two forces $F_1$ and $F_2$ perpendicular ...
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Deformation gradient, strain tensor from cylindrical coordinates
I do not have any engineering background but I am studying some mathematics to try and understand and solve this problem. I have a mesh (M1) in cylindrical coordinates and this deforms into a mesh (M2)...
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inverse kinematic of modified Rodriquez parameters
as you know, the attitude of a robot is represented using many ways, euler angles, quaternion, rodriquez parameters, and so on. I should use rodriquez representation in a problem formulated same as a ...
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Solve quaternion kinematic
In a robot or spacecraft attitude representation, using quaternion is relevant.
The kinematic equation is as below
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
\dot{q}_0 \\ \dot{q}
\end{bmatrix} =
\frac{1}{2}
\begin{bmatrix}
-...
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Degree of freedom of a mechanism
A mechanism popped up in my mind when I was studying kinematics, see picture below
$J1,\ J2,\ J3$ are rotational joints and there are two translational joints $J4$ and $J5$ between two sliders and the ...
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Velocity and Acceleration Polygons for Mechanism
I need to determine the velocity and acceleration of point H using vector equations and drawing a polygon. Given data is shown. $\omega$2 is 5.8 rad/s and $\phi$2 is 120 degrees
I know how I can draw ...
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Relation between links and pairs in Kinematic chain
I came across a equation for kinematic chain (for lower pairs only) :
L = 2P-4
where L: Number of Links;
P is the number of pairs
how could this equation be derived ?
EDIT: I tried putting values in ...
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Linearisation of the Equations of Motion of an Inverted Double Pendulum
I am working to develop a deep reinforcement learning model for balancing an inverted double pendulum.
To do so, I needed to derive the equations of motion, via the Euler-Lagrange (EL) method and now ...
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differential drive vehicle in screen coords
differential drive vehicle in world frame
what would change in the kinematic model of the differential drive vehicle if i wanted to simulate it
using pygame module in python ( pygame or opencv or any ...
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How to compute the size of a polygon moving along non-circular guide rails
I am trying to compute the optimal (a non-optimal solution would also work) size of carts that can move along guiding rails. Each cart is connected to the rails at two points. Each cart is also ...
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Forward and Inverse Kinematics of PUMA 560
I am currently coding a Forward and Inverse Kinematics solver for a PUMA 560 robot. For the Inverse Kinematics part I am using the closed for solution given in this paper. But my issue is, my solution ...
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Mechanical device to simulate hinge axis external/off of part
Take a horizontal bar 10' pinned on the right end, so that there is a hinge point on the right end. Space requirements dictate that the bar must be cut in down to 5' (cut in middle and keep the left ...
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Mechanical Engineering: How To Amplify Kinetic Energy In Axial Rotational Gear Machinery? [closed]
When I originally posted this question 2021-04-08, I was inspired by pulley physics, especially after viewing these videos at this link and this link and this link. It is not necessary to go to these ...
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What does it mean for a machine design to be "kinematic"?
I've seen the term "kinematic" used qualitatively to describe machines several times in books and on YouTube. I think I understand what kinematics is as a study, but I'm not sure what people ...
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Inverse of quaternion kinematic matrix
In a robot or spacecraft attitude representation, using quaternion is relevant.
The kinematic equation is as below
$$
\begin{bmatrix}
\dot{q}_0 \\ \dot{q}
\end{bmatrix} =
\frac{1}{2}
\begin{bmatrix}
-...
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What is meant by "shock load" in gears?
What is meant by shock load in gears?
What are steady, light, medium and heavy shock loads?
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What are the basic mechanism, components or parts to generate relative movements?
I'm an engineer in industrial design and despite that I studied mechanics, kinematics and dynamics, I got difficulties when I try to label or find components which could enable my designs have ...
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Why do I get pushed back when I’m in a car at high speed?
When I’m in a car at high speed , I get kind of like pushed back if I’m sitting on the cars seat. How does it happen and why ?
If I’m in a car , then I have the same speed as car and for the car , I ...
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In circular motion , why do we say this is centripetal acceleration
Let us say a particle is moving in a circle with Uniform circular motion .
Then , if I take an equation like this .
$\theta$ = S(Arc length or Total distance covered ) / Radius of circle *( time ...