• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.68-75
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• 2012

In this study, the optimal synthesis of planar steering mechanisms for vehicles is studied. The author minimized the steering error between two front wheels subject to the constraints of transmission angles. Nonlinear programming methods such as BFGS method and golden section search method are used for this optimization. As numerical examples, Ackermann's steering mechanism, 6-link and 10-link planar mechanism are adopted to check the usefulness of this method. Consequently, among the three optimized mechanisms, 10-link planar one conducts far more accurate performance subject to tight constraints of transmission angles.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.48-54
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• 2012

This paper introduces the kinematic calibration method to improve the positioning accuracy of a parallel mechanism. Since all the actuators in the parallel mechanism are controlled simultaneously toward the target position, the volumetric errors originated from each motion element are too complicated. Therefore, the exact evaluation of the error sources of each motion element and its calibration is very important in terms of volumetric errors. In the calibration processes, the measurement of the errors between commands and trajectories is necessary in advance. To do this, a digitizer was used for the data acquisition in 3 dimensional space rather than arbitrary planar error data. After that, the optimization process that was used for reducing the motion errors were followed. Consequently, Levenberg-Marquart algorithm as well as the error data acquisition method turned out effective for the purpose of the calibration of the parallel mechanism.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.185-191
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• 2013

In this paper, the dynamics of a novel 2-DOF planar Translational Parallel Manipulator (TPM) is analyzed. The suggested TPM is made up of two PPa (Prismatic-planar Parallelogram) legs. Since all the linear actuators are mounted on the base, the proposed TPM can be applied for high speed positioning applications. The Lagrangian equations of the first type is employed to derive the inverse dynamic equations. It is shown that the analytical inverse dynamics equations match very well with ADAMS simulations. These analytical inverse dynamics equations will be used for the real-time computed torque control in the further work.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.4 no.1 s.6
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• pp.57-66
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• 1996

For the effective use of spatial data, it is necessary to translate the diverse digital map data (here, digital map for car navigation system) into common GIS data structure(here, ARC/INFO). For this purpose, analysis on the structure of the established digital map was fulfilled, the data model for effective translation tool was designed. As a result, the possibility to translate diverse digital map structures (database) into GIS tools and to share them, with the users' point of view, was successfully verified.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.8 s.173
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• pp.118-127
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• 2005

A spatial 3 degrees-of-freedom mechanism employing Stewart Platform structure is proposed: the mechanism maintains the 3- RRPS structure of Stewart Platform but has an additional passive PRR serial sub-chain at the center area of the mechanism in order to constrain the output motion of the mechanism within the output motion space of the added PRR serial subchain. The forward and reverse position analyses of the mechanism are performed. Then the mechanism having both the forward and the reverse closed-form solutions is suggested and its closed form solutions are derived. It is confirmed, through the kinematic analysis of those two proposed mechanisms via kinematic isotropic index, that both the proposed mechanisms have fairly good kinematic characteristics compared to the existing spatial 3-DOF mechanisms in literature.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.610-618
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• 2001

Pantograph, which collects current from cartenary system, is one of the important parts of high-speed train. Kinematic analysis is one of the key technologies for pantograph design and includes joint trajectories, reaction forces, and the required moment of main shaft calculations. The kinematic analysis, however, is very complex and time-consuming process. In this study PC based pantograph kinematic analysis software using graphical user interface tool was developed for the easy evaluations of kinematic characteristics necessary in pantograph design process.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.2672-2679
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• 2000

In synthesizing and RSSS-SC mechanism that is the kinematic model of the McPherson strut suspension system in automobiles, the design equations for R-S, S-S and S-C dyads should be solved separately for a given set of prescribed positions. The number of prescribed positions that the RSSS-SC mechanism can be synthesized is up to three because of the S-C dyad. This limitation may cause unsatisfactory results in synthesized joint positions. This paper presents a kinematic synthesis method to place the joints of an RSSS-SC mechanism in desired boundaries by varying the prescribed positions of the mechanism within acceptable tolerances. The sensitivity analysis of the joint positions is used determine which displacement parameter should be altered to fulfill this task.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.3398-3407
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• 1996

In this paper, we derive an algorithm and develope a computer program which analyze rapidly and precisely the inverse kinematics of robotic mechanism with spatial complex chain structure based on the relative coordinates. We represent the inverse kinematic problem as an optimization problem with the kinematic constraint equations. The inverse kinematic analysis algorithm, therefore, consists of two algorithms, the main, an optimization algorithm finding the motion of independent joints from that of an end-effector and the sub, a forward kinematic analysis algorithm computing the motion of dependent joints. We accomplish simulations for the investigation upon the accuracy and efficiency of the algorithm.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.2665-2671
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• 2000

Dimensional Synthesis, which is apart of kinematic synthesis, is to determine the dimensions of a mechanism of preconceived typer for a specified task and prescribed performance. In this paper, in an effort to provide designers with flexibility, a dimensional approximate synthesis method is presented for utilizing prescribed tolerance both the displacement and joint positions of a mechanism to be synthesized. For this, a constrained optimization problem is formulated with displacement parameters and joint positions as variables. The proposed method is applied to the synthesis of a 5-SS multi link suspension mechanism. The method discussed here, however, can be easily applied to any mechanism of which the kinematic constraint equations can be derived.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1640-1648
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• 1991

본 연구에서는 이러한 편사 함수 최소화의 방법을 적용함에 있어 보다 안정된 수렴성과 계산 시간을 단축시키기 위하여 근접 위치 방법(near position method)을 개 발하여 적용하였다. 근접 위치 방법이란 이론적 해석법으로 풀기가 불가능한 기구학 을 갖는 6관절 로봇을 반복적 해석법을 사용한다는 것을 전제로 하여, 초기 위치를 목 표 위치에 가능한 근접하게 잡아서 반복 계산을 수행하는 방법으로써 로봇의 기구학적 자세에 따른 수렴의 불안정성을 방지하고, 계산 시간을 단축하는데 그 목적이 있다.