Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Design of Trustworthy Cyber–Physical–Social Systems With Discrete Bayesian Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Cyber–physical–social systems (CPSS) with highly integrated functions of sensing, actuation, computation, and communication are becoming the mainstream consumer and commercial products. The performance of CPSS heavily ... -
Leveraging Task Modularity in Reinforcement Learning for Adaptable Industry 4.0 Automation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The vision of Industry 4.0 is to materialize the notion of a lot-size of one through enhanced adaptability and resilience of manufacturing and logistics operations to dynamic changes or deviations on the shop floor. This ... -
A Data-Driven Methodology to Improve Tolerance Allocation Using Product Usage Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, puts forward new requirements for the sustainable service of products. With the recent advances in measurement technologies, global and local deformations in inaccessible ... -
A Novel Planetary Thread Roller Bearing: Design and Analysis of Load Characteristic
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A novel planetary thread roller bearing (PTRB) was proposed in this paper based on the Hertz theory combined with multiple principles (e.g., equivalent steel ball, multi-point meshing, and power dividing). A significant ... -
An Optimal Architectural Design for Unconventional Modular Reconfigurable Manipulation System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Modular and reconfigurable manipulators have gained popularity especially in the service sector, where the use of customized configurations has increased. Adaptable modular designs have come into advances in achieving ... -
The Mechanical Efficiency of Harmonic Drives: A Simplified Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Harmonic drives are widely used devices in robotic and space applications. As for any device transmitting motion, its mechanical efficiency is one of the main concerns for the designer. In this paper, it is proposed a new ... -
Reconfigurable Acoustic Arrays With Deployable Structure Based on a Hoberman–Miura System Synthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Curved surfaces are often used to radiate and focus acoustic waves. Yet, when tessellated into reconfigurable surfaces for sake of deployability needs, origami-inspired acoustic arrays may be challenging to hold into curved ... -
Reliability Analysis and Random Vibration of Nonlinear Systems Using the Adjoint Method and Projected Differentiation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper proposes a new methodology for time-dependent reliability and random vibrations of nonlinear vibratory systems using a combination of a time-dependent adjoint variable (AV) method and a projected differentiation ... -
Topology Optimization of Linkage Mechanisms Simultaneously Considering Both Kinematic and Compliance Characteristics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Studies on the topology optimization of linkage mechanisms have thus far focused mainly on mechanism synthesis considering only kinematic characteristics describing a desired path or motion. Here, we propose a new topology ... -
A New Development of a Shadow Density Filter for Manufacturing Constraint and Its Applications to Multiphysics Topology Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The present research develops a new shadow filter and presents its usage for structural topology optimization (TO) considering the molding manufacturability. It is important to consider manufacturing methods in designing ... -
Design Variety Measurement Using Sharma–Mittal Entropy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Design variety metrics measure how much a design space is explored. This article proposes that a generalized class of entropy metrics based on Sharma–Mittal entropy offers advantages over existing methods to measure design ... -
Geometry-Based Thick Origami Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Origami is the art of creating a three-dimensional (3D) shape by folding paper. It has drawn much attention from researchers, and the designs that origami has inspired are used in various engineering applications. Most of ... -
Deriving Design Feature Vectors for Patent Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The patent database is often used by designers to search for inspirational stimuli for innovative design opportunities because of the large size, extensive variety, and the massive quantity of design information contained ... -
Eliciting Attribute-Level User Needs From Online Reviews With Deep Language Models and Information Extraction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Eliciting user needs for individual components and features of a product or a service on a large scale is a key requirement for innovative design. Synthesizing data as an initial discovery phase of a design process is ... -
Mitigating Design Fixation: A Visualization Tool for Enhancing Situation Awareness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)External stimuli can stimulate a designer's creativity and improve the outcome of design ideation for product/service concept generation. A psychological phenomenon that may occur during such utilization of external stimuli ... -
Fostering Function-Sharing Using Bioinspired Product Architecture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work deduces principles of bioinspired product architecture to effectively leverage biological function-sharing in engineering design. Function-sharing enables a single structure to perform multiple functions and can ... -
The Cost on System Performance of Requirements on Differentiable Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)System design is commonly thought of as a process of maximizing a design objective subject to constraints, among which are the system requirements. Given system-level requirements, a convenient management approach is to ... -
Application of the Bilateral Filter for the Reconstruction of Spiral Bevel Gear Tooth Surfaces From Point Clouds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Reconstruction of gear tooth surfaces from point clouds obtained by noncontact metrology machines constitutes a promising step forward not only for a fast gear inspection but also for reverse engineering and virtual testing ... -
The Improved DLR Wrist: Design and Analysis of 2-Degrees-of-Freedom Rotational Mechanism Using Spatial Antiparallelogram Linkages
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This article presents a kinematic analysis and modification of a wrist mechanism of the DLR robot arm, which is based on antiparallelogram linkages. This mechanism is modified to improve the range of motion (ROM), to reduce ... -
A Novel Two-Stage Constant Force Compliant Microgripper
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The manipulating objects of the micron scale are easily damaged, hence the microgrippers, the key components in micro manipulating systems, demand precise force control, plus miniaturized size. Consequently, the constant ...