Mechanical characteristics and experimental research of a flexible rope-sheave hoisting mechanism

Tang, Shufeng; Huang, Renjie; Zhao, Guoqing

doi:10.1007/s12206-022-0612-x

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“…The mechanical analysis was carried out based on the design of the cone docking head and the circular hole docking body (Tang et al , 2022). The arc surface of the active docking head was in contact with the arc surface of the passive docking hole at point O , and the corresponding radius of curvature were R 1 and R 2 , respectively.…”

Section: Mechanical Analysis and Structural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cone–hole docking mechanism for a modular reconfigurable mobile robot and its characteristic analysis

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Zhao³

et al. 2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is that the modular mobile robots reformed the multimachine joint mode to achieve obstacle-crossing, climbing and other multifunctional inspection in unstructured environment under the connection of the cone–hole docking mechanism. Design/methodology/approach An arc-shaped docking cone head with a posture-maintaining spring and two arc-shaped connecting rods that formed a ring round hole were designed to achieve large tolerance docking. Before active locking, the coordination between structures was used to achieve passive locking, which mitigated the docking impact of modular robots in unstructured environment. Using the locking ring composed of the two arc-shaped connecting rods, open-loop and closed-loop motion characteristics were obtained through the mutual motion of the connecting rod and the sliding block to achieve active locking, which not only ensured high precision docking, but also achieved super docking stability. Findings The cone–hole docking mechanism had the docking tolerance performance of position deviation of 6mm and pitch deviation of 8° to achieve docking of six degrees of freedom (6-DOF), which had a load capacity of 230 N to achieve super docking stability. Under the connection of the cone–hole docking mechanism, the modular mobile robots reformed the multimachine joint mode to achieve obstacle-crossing, climbing and other multifunctional inspection in unstructured environment. Originality/value Based on mechanical analysis of universal models, a cone–hole docking mechanism combining active and passive functions, six-dimensional constraints could be implemented, was proposed in this paper. The characteristics of the posture-maintaining spring in the cone docking head and the compression spring at the two ends of two arc-shaped connecting rods were used to achieve docking with large tolerance. Passive locking and active locking modules were designed, mitigating impact load and the locking did not require power to maintain, which not only ensured high precision docking, but also achieved super docking stability.

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Section: Mechanical Analysis and Structural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%