Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Low Volume Plastics Manufacturing Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Plastic components are vital components of many engineered products, frequently representing 20–40% of the product value. While injection molding is the most common process for economically producing ... -
Integration of User Perceptions in the Design Process: Application to Musical Instrument Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper describes a user-centered design method, which allows the integration of user’s perceptions in different stages of the design process, by taking into account his/her needs and ... -
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Stiffness of Cable-based Parallel Manipulators With Application to Stability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The stiffness of cable-based robots is studied in this paper. Since antagonistic forces are essential for the operation of cable-based manipulators, their effects on the stiffness should be ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)I am pleased to announce that in January 2007, the Journal of Mechanical Design will begin monthly publication. Over the past four years the rate of submissions has doubled, as has the number ... -
Dynamic Performance Limitations Due to Yielding in Cable-Driven Robotic Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper presents a method for characterizing the performance limitations imposed by the yielding of the cables in systems with cable-driven transmissions. The method involves developing a ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)One of my first initiatives as the new Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design in early 2003 was to increase the number of Associate Editors, to reduce the individual review management ... -
An Elimination Procedure for Solving the Geometric Design of Spatial 3R Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In this paper, the geometric design problem of serial-link robot manipulators with three revolute (R) joints when three precision points are specified is solved using an algebraic elimination ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Over the past several years authors who have published in the Journal of Mechanical Design have recognized the recent work by their colleagues to such an extent that the journal impact factor ... -
Efficiency Analysis of Rapid Turbocharger With Alternative Bearing Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This work presents the possibility to adapt self-acting air bearing to a rapid diesel engine turbocharger originally designed with oil journal bearings. The aim of this innovative idea is to ... -
Forward Position Analysis of the 3-DOF Module of the TriVariant: A 5-DOF Reconfigurable Hybrid Robot
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper deals with the forward position analysis of a 3-DOF parallel mechanism module, which forms the main body of a 5-DOF reconfigurable hybrid robot named TriVariant. The TriVariant is ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This issue presents a special supplement on the theme of Spatial Mechanisms and Robot Manipulators edited by Gordon Pennock and Madhu Raghavan. This supplement is designed to combine the insights ... -
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Identification of the Workspace Boundary Of a General 3-R Manipulator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In this paper an algebraic formulation is presented for the boundary workspace of 3-R manipulators in Cartesian Space. It is shown that the cross-section boundary curve can be described by a ... -
A Novel Approach in the Direct Kinematics of Stewart Platform Mechanisms with Planar Platforms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)In handling the kinematic analysis of two rigid bodies connected to each other by six legs through the use of six double spherical joints, methods have been implemented both in the formulation ... -
Real-Time Direct Position Analysis of Parallel Spherical Wrists by Using Extra Sensors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper presents an algorithm for the real-time evaluation of the actual end-effector orientation of general parallel spherical wrists. Conceptually, the method relies on evidence that the pose ... -
Topological Synthesis of a Parallel Wrist Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)To determine a suitable kinematic structure for a specific application is a complex task. Some available methods may provide a list of possible architectures for a robot wrist. However, a ... -
Analytic Form of the Six-Dimensional Singularity Locus of the General Gough-Stewart Platform
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The determination of the 6D singularity locus of the general Gough-Stewart platform is discussed in this article. The derivation of the velocity equation and the corresponding Jacobian matrices ... -
Analytic Form Solution of the Direct Position Analysis of a Wide Family of Three-Legged Parallel Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A wide family of parallel manipulators (PMs) is the one that groups all PMs with three legs where the legs become kinematic chains constituted of a passive spherical pair (S) in series with ... -
Position Analysis of the RRP-3(SS) Multi-Loop Spatial Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper presents the position analysis of a spatial structure composed of two platforms mutually connected by one RRP and three SS serial kinematic chains, where R, P, and S stand for ...