Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Data Fusion With Latent Map Gaussian Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Multi-fidelity modeling and calibration are data fusion tasks that ubiquitously arise in engineering design. However, there is currently a lack of general techniques that can jointly fuse multiple data sets with varying ... -
Reliability-Based Multivehicle Path Planning Under Uncertainty Using a Bio-Inspired Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Identifying a reliable path in uncertain environments is essential for designing reliable off-road autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) considering postdesign operations. This article presents a novel bio-inspired approach ... -
Transmission Mechanism Combining Self-Excited Vibrations and One-Way Clutches
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)We propose a new transmission mechanism that is compatible with high-speed downsizing motors. This mechanism adopts the “pulse drive transmission” (PDT) principle. Similar to the electrical switching converter, the PDT ... -
Optimal Synthesis of Unconventional Links for Modular Reconfigurable Manipulators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Customization of manipulators having unconventional parameters and link shapes have gained attention to accomplish nonrepetitive tasks in a given cluttered environment. Adaptive modular and reconfigurable designs are being ... -
Digitizing Product Dissection: A Case Study on Augmented Reality and Animation in Engineering Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The global pandemic of 2020 caused a paradigm shift in engineering education. In a matter of weeks, and sometimes days, faculty members across the world had to move their hands-on engineering courses to an online environment. ... -
Solving Three-Dimensional Path Planning Problem Using a Visibility-Based Graphical Representation of the Design Space
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Planning the shortest collision-free path among scattered obstacles is an NP-complete problem. As reviewed in this paper, a variety of deterministic as well as heuristic methods have been developed to address different ... -
An Adaptive Dendrite-HDMR Metamodeling Technique for High-Dimensional Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)High-dimensional model representation (HDMR), decomposing the high-dimensional problem into summands of different order component terms, has been widely researched to work out the dilemma of “curse-of-dimensionality” when ... -
Bioinspiration of Product Architecture: Trading-Off System Effectiveness for System Robustness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work analyzes the role of bioinspired product architecture in facilitating the design of robust engineering systems. Prior works have proposed design guidelines to facilitate the implementation of bioinspired product ... -
Uncovering Human Errors Associated With System-User Interactions Using Functional Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Designers should adequately develop user considerations such as usability, safety, and comfort during the design process of new systems. Nevertheless, incorporating human factors engineering principles during early design ... -
A Statically Balanced Compliant Ortho-Planar Mechanism for Low-Frequency Energy Harvesting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The usually high eigenfrequencies of miniaturized oscillators can be significantly lowered by reducing the stiffness through stiffness compensation. In this work, a mechanical design for a compliant ortho-planar mechanism ... -
On the Ensemble of Surrogate Models by Minimum Screening Index
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The ensemble of surrogate models has attracted more and more attention due to their more stable performance than individual models. This work proposes a novel adaptive ensemble of surrogate models based on the minimum ... -
Virtual and Face-to-Face Team Collaboration Comparison Through an Agent-Based Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the acceptance of virtual team collaboration as a replacement for face-to-face collaboration. Unlike face-to-face collaboration, virtual collaboration is influenced by unique ... -
Level Set-Based Structural Optimization With Uniform Wall Thickness for Wire-Fed Metal Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A new three-dimensional structural optimization is presented based on the level set method to obtain favorable designs for wire-fed metal additive manufacturing with uniform wall thickness. By exploiting the signed distance ... -
Social Network Word-of-Mouth Integrated Into Agent-Based Design for Market Systems Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Improving engineering design in the context of market systems requires a deep understanding of the decision-making processes of multiple interacting stakeholders and how they affect the success of new products. One key ... -
The Application of Ethnographic Methods to Engineering for Global Development: The Case of the Improvised Betel Nut Cutter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This technical brief is an attempt to report a case analysis of Engineering for Global Development (EGD) research from India. As a part of the engineering design and research project, two models of improvised betel nut ... -
Reconfigurable Robotic System Design With Application to Cleaning and Maintenance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The design of cleaning and maintenance (CaM) robots is generally limited by their fixed morphologies, resulting in limited functions and modes of operation. Contrary to fixed shape robots, the design of reconfigurable ... -
Grooved Cam Mechanism With a Translating Follower Having an Added Ternary-Roller Intermediate Link
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The paper presents an analytical approach for designing grooved cam mechanisms with a modified arrangement of the common translating follower. That is, an intermediate link having three rollers is added between the cam and ... -
An Articulated Robotic Forceps Design With a Parallel Wrist-Gripper Mechanism and Parasitic Motion Compensation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this paper, a novel four degrees-of-freedom (4DOF) articulated parallel forceps mechanism with a large orientation workspace (±90deg in pitch and yaw, 360deg in roll rotations) is presented for robotic minimally invasive ... -
A Novel Approach to Configuration Redesign: Using Multiobjective Monotonicity Analysis to Alter the Pareto Set
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Configuration (or topology or embodiment) design remains a ubiquitous challenge in product design optimization and in design automation, meaning configuration design is largely driven by experience in industrial practice. ... -
Design-by-Analogy: Effects of Exploration-Based Approach on Analogical Retrievals and Design Outcomes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper presents VISION (Visual Interaction tool for Seeking Inspiration based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization), a computational design-by-analogy (DbA) tool that enables designers to visually explore a space of ...