Abstract: Traditionally, cam-follower systems are designed by assuming a constant camshaft speed. Nevertheless, all cam-follower systems, especially high-speed systems, exhibit some camshaft speed fluctuation ...

Abstract: Linkage and cam-follower mechanism design are often based on the simplifying assumption of constant drive speed. Usually, however, the mutual interaction between the mechanism and its actuator ...

Abstract: A moving linkage exerts fluctuating forces and moments on its supporting frame. One strategy to suppress the resulting frame vibration is to reduce the exciting forces and moments by adding ...

Abstract: This paper extends previous work concerning convex reformulations of counterweight balancing by developing a general and numerically efficient design framework for counterweight balancing of arbitrarily ...

Abstract: Dynamic balance is an important feature of high speed mechanisms and robotics that need to minimize vibrations of the base. The main disadvantage of dynamic balancing, however, is that it is ...

Abstract: This paper illustrates the power and versatility of the convex programming framework for optimal spline synthesis that was developed in a companion paper (, , , , , and , 2009, “Optimal ...

Abstract: This paper develops a general framework to synthesize optimal polynomial splines for rigid motion systems driven by cams or servomotors. This framework is based on numerical optimization, and ...