[HTML][HTML] Mechanism balancing taxonomy

H Schneegans, JJ De Jong, F Cosandier… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2024 - Elsevier
The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and
elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the elimination of …

[HTML][HTML] The Grand 4R Four-Bar Based Inherently Balanced Linkage Architecture for synthesis of shaking force balanced and gravity force balanced mechanisms

V van Der Wijk - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
Considering balancing as starting point in the design of mechanisms and manipulators is
known as inherent balancing. Inherently balanced linkage architectures then form the basis …

Design and analysis of closed-chain principal vector linkages for dynamic balance with a new method for mass equivalent modeling

V van der Wijk - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2017 - Elsevier
For high-speed robotics dynamic (shaking) force and (shaking) moment balance are
important properties to obtain low base vibrations, high precision, and short cycle times, ao …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic balancing of mechanisms with flexible links

JP Meijaard, V Van Der Wijk - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamic balancing of flexible mechanisms, that is, the reduction or elimination of
shaking forces and shaking moments on the support structure, is considered. Two …

Kinetic-geometric three-position synthesis of a balanced 4R four-bar linkage

V van der Wijk - International Symposium on Advances in Robot …, 2024 - Springer
This paper proposes a synthesis method in which dynamic requirements are the starting
point for deriving the corresponding geometric properties of the linkage for a certain task …

Evolutionary Multiobjective Design Approach for Robust Balancing of the Shaking Force, Shaking Moment, and Torque under Uncertainties: Application to Robotic …

R Mejia-Rodriguez, MG Villarreal-Cervantes… - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the environmental uncertainties are taken into account when designing a
robotic manipulator to balance the shaking force, shaking moment, and torque. The …

Design and Control of an Aerial Manipulator With Invariant Center of Gravity for Physical Interaction

Y Rong, W Chou - Journal of Mechanisms and …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The deployment of manipulators enhances the versatility and flexibility of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) in aerial physical interaction tasks but also challenges their designs and …

ADAPT: A 3 Degrees of Freedom Reconfigurable Force Balanced Parallel Manipulator for Aerial Applications

K Suryavanshi, S Hamaza… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the ADAPT, a novel reconfigurable force-balanced parallel
manipulator for spatial motions and interaction capabilities underneath a drone. The …

Structural design and experiments of a dynamically balanced inverted four-bar linkage as manipulator arm for high acceleration applications

MJJ Zomerdijk, V van der Wijk - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industrial robotic manipulators in pick-and-place applications require short settling times to
achieve high productivity. The fluctuating reaction forces and moments on the base of a …

Structural Topology Optimization of Reactionless Four-Bar Linkages

J Emmanuel Ayala-Hernández… - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Classical dynamic balancing techniques do not consider the linkage elastic behavior. For
mechanism or robot design purpose, taking into account the flexibility of the multibody …