TY - GEN
T1 - The design and manufacture of a gear-coupled serial chain to trace the butterfly curve
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Wang, Peter Lee Shien
AU - McCarthy, J. Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 ASME.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents a design and manufacturing methodology for a mechanical system that draws trigonometric curves assembled from a series of links connected by gears. We demonstrate this technique using 11 gear-coupled links that trace a butterfly curve. The equation of a butterfly curve is converted to the relative rotations of the links of a coupled serial chain assembled so it operates with one input. We present a procedure to determine the adjustments to the gear ratios and link dimensions necessary for practical manufacture of the mechanism. The results are demonstrated by a working prototype.
AB - This paper presents a design and manufacturing methodology for a mechanical system that draws trigonometric curves assembled from a series of links connected by gears. We demonstrate this technique using 11 gear-coupled links that trace a butterfly curve. The equation of a butterfly curve is converted to the relative rotations of the links of a coupled serial chain assembled so it operates with one input. We present a procedure to determine the adjustments to the gear ratios and link dimensions necessary for practical manufacture of the mechanism. The results are demonstrated by a working prototype.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85034853731
U2 - 10.1115/DETC2017-68388
DO - 10.1115/DETC2017-68388
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034853731
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 41st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2017
Y2 - 6 August 2017 through 9 August 2017
ER -