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Motion Technology
The Lecture Motion Technology deals with the Kinematics and Kinetostatics of Planar and Spatial Mechanisms and discusses Examples from many Areas of Engineering.
Key Info
Basic Information
- Degree:
- Master
- Semesters:
- Wintersemester
- Organizational Unit:
- Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics
- Lecturer:
- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Burkhard Corves
- Language:
- German
Further Information
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Course Content
Planar, Spherical and Spatial Crank Mechanism
- Introduction
- Fundamental Definitions
- Applications
Analysis and Classification of Motion Tasks
- Transfer Mechanisms
- Guidance Mechanisms
Mechanism Analysis
- 5- and 6-bar mechanisms
- Spherical mechanisms
- Spatial mechanisms
Dead Center Position Synthesis
- Alt`s Dead Center Position Synthesis
Multiple Generation of a Coupler Curve
- Generation of the Roberts Mechanisms
- Generation of a Five-Bar-Linkage with two synchonized Cranks
- Parallel Guidance of a Link on a Coupler Curve
Planetary Gears
- Mechanism Configuration and Definitions
- Transmission Ratio
- Planetary Gear with one fixed Wheel
- Planetary Gear with Cranks
- Applications for Planetary Gear with Cranks
- Sumgears
- Planetary Gear with Cranks for high Transmission Ratios
- Cycloids
- Basics, Curves and Equations
- Flection in the Angular Points
- Generation of Twin-Cycloids
- Generation of Cycloids with a revolving Center Wheel and Multilevel Transmissions
- Applications for Cycloids
Curvature of Trajectories
- Centrode Tangent and Centrode Normal
- Equation of Euler-Savary
- Bobillier's Theorem
- Inflection Point and Inflection Circle
- Straightening of Coupler Curves
Kinetics
- Introduction of Forces and Torques
- Twin-Forces and Torque
- Joint and Friction Forces
- Point of Action and Transmission Angle
- Equilibrium conditions
- for Two, Three and Four Forces
- Superposition Principle
- Principle of Virtual Work
- Virtual Power
- Polkraftverfahren Hain
Applications
- Dwell Mechanism
- Synchronous mechanism
- Complicant mechanism
Exercises
The topics listed above will be reinforced weekly in exersices and self-study exercises. In doing so, the exercises revisit the theory of the lecture and apply it directly to solve common mechanism design problems. Problems are solved graphically or computationally. Each exercise is concluded with knowledge questions to back up what has been learned. The self-study exercises give the opportunity to apply the learned methods in the geometry program GeoGebra and thus to get to know a suitable software product. The supervision of the self-study exercises is carried out at eye level by student assistants.