Elastik eyleyici tasarımın bilgisayar ortamında modellenmesi ve çizimlerinin oluşturulmasındaki yardımlarından dolayı değerli öğrencim İsmet Eralp Yüzük’e teşekkürlerimi sunarım.
Actuators are the most critical components that determine the overall performance of any robotic system. For many years, the lack of suitable actuators has hampered the development of high-performance machines or robots that can compete with living organisms in terms of motion, safety, and energy efficiency. Adaptation properties of biological systems to environmental variables; for example, the control performance of biological muscle with variable stiffness properties exceeds the performance of mechanical devices. The variable stiffness characteristics of elastic actuators are quite different from the operating principle of conventional solid actuators that require accurate reference trajectory tracking used in industrial robots. Although there has been a lot of work on the design of elastic actuators in recent years, a low-cost and compact elastic actuator that can be used in place of standard rigid servo actuators is not yet available. In this study, a standard servo motor, which is widely used in robotic applications and hobby vehicles due to its low cost, has been transformed into an elastic actuator by an elastic coupling attached to the gear system. The elastic coupling consists of four small shafts with a prismatic cross section placed on the circular disk, and the stiffness of the actuator is adjusted by varying the clutch length of the prismatic shafts. In the study, this innovative design is explained, then the equations expressing the variation of the torsional stiffness of the prismatic shaft with the coupling length and solutions of these equations are given.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | October 31, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Special Issue 2019 |