• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.61-66
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• 2012

Conventional method to transform vehicle driving condition to engine operation mode is to use vehicle road load under neutral gear and mechanical efficiency of drivetrain. But this method requires additional measurement of efficiency of drivetrain on a test rig. And this measurement is normally done at fixed speed and thus estimated accuracy of engine operation mode is not considered to be high enough. This study suggests new method to calculate engine operation mode for prescribed driving mode such as NEDC using vehicle coastdown test under gear engaged condition without measurement of mechanical efficiency of drivetrain. Coastdown test was done under neutral and gear engaged condition for comparison and also trial to extract mechanical loss of drivetrain was carried out. Calculated engine torque by conventional and newly suggested method was compared with actually measured torque of a vehicle on a chassis dynamometer during NEDC. Newly suggested method showed slightly higher accuracy of accumulated brake work during NEDC.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.1593-1598
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to perform parameter selection and develop a method for the condition monitoring of an LCD conveyance robot. To determine the vibration characteristics of the driving part of the robot, the gear mesh frequency (GMF) of the speed-reducing gearbox is calculated and confirmed by frequency analysis. In order to ensure reproducibility of the measured data, an appropriate working pattern is selected and experiments are carried out. For condition monitoring of the robot, a wireless measurement system is constructed and used in parameter selection, with the GMF as the center. A method involving the use of the standard deviation of the measured data and another method involving the use of multiple value of amplitude are proposed.