Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics
Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics

Author: Ian Fischer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1351454498

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This well-organized book uses 3x3 coordinate-transformation matrices and 3-element vectors with dual-number elements to analyze the mechanics of mechanism, robots, and other mechanical systems. Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statics and Dynamics serves as a text for a course using dual-number methods as well as a manual for the reader to develop his or her abilities for the design of machinery or evaluation of mechanical systems. In addition to the explanatory text and derivations, the author includes numerous examples and exercises to enable the reader to gain insight and perfect skills.

Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statistics, and Dynamics
Dual-Number Methods in Kinematics, Statistics, and Dynamics

Author: Ian Fischer

Publisher: CRC-Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780849391156

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This book is a graduate-level text in which 3X3 coordinate-transformation matrices and 3-element vectors with dual-number elements are used to analyze the mechanics of mechanisms, robots and other mechanical systems. The use of dual numbers allows a very compact and convenient notation for the analysis of displacements, velocities, static equilibrium and dynamic equilibrium. The concept of the dual number has been around since the 19th century but has not become popular because there has not been a textbook available to facilitate learning the concepts and methods. Mention of the dual number and its applications have been more frequent in recent years but have been scattered about in journal articles with varying approaches and notation. This text features a well organized explanation of how the dual-number can be applied with examples and exercises so that the reader can use dual-number methods to analyze mechanical systems of interest.

Flexible Multibody Dynamics
Flexible Multibody Dynamics

Author: O. A. Bauchau

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-10-23

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 940070335X

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The author developed this text over many years, teaching graduate courses in advanced dynamics and flexible multibody dynamics at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The book presents a unified treatment of rigid body dynamics, analytical dynamics, constrained dynamics, and flexible multibody dynamics. A comprehensive review of numerical tools used to enforce both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints is presented. Advanced topics such as Maggi’s, index-1, null space, and Udwadia and Kalaba’s formulations are presented because of their fundamental importance in multibody dynamics. Methodologies for the parameterization of rotation and motion are discussed and contrasted. Geometrically exact beams and shells formulations, which have become the standard in flexible multibody dynamics, are presented and numerical aspects of their finite element implementation detailed. Methodologies for the direct solution of the index-3 differential-algebraic equations characteristic of constrained multibody systems are presented. It is shown that with the help of proper scaling procedures, such equations are not more difficult to integrate than ordinary differential equations. This book is illustrated with numerous examples and should prove valuable to both students and researchers in the fields of rigid and flexible multibody dynamics.

Advances in Computational Multibody Systems
Advances in Computational Multibody Systems

Author: Jorge A.C. Ambrósio

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1402033931

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Among all the fields in solid mechanics the methodologies associated to multibody dynamics are probably those that provide a better framework to aggregate different disciplines. This idea is clearly reflected in the multidisciplinary applications in biomechanics that use multibody dynamics to describe the motion of the biological entities, or in finite elements where the multibody dynamics provides powerful tools to describe large motion and kinematic restrictions between system components, or in system control for which multibody dynamics are the prime form of describing the systems under analysis, or even in applications with fluid-structures interaction or aeroelasticity. This book contains revised and enlarged versions of selected communications presented at the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference in Multibody Dynamics 2003 that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, which have been enhanced in their self-containment and tutorial aspects by the authors. The result is a comprehensive text that constitutes a valuable reference for researchers and design engineers and helps to appraise the potential of application of multibody dynamics to a wide range of scientific and engineering areas of relevance.

Multibody Dynamics
Multibody Dynamics

Author: Carlo L. Bottasso

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1402088299

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Multibody Dynamics is an area of Computational Mechanics which blends together various disciplines such as structural dynamics, multi-physics - chanics, computational mathematics, control theory and computer science, in order to deliver methods and tools for the virtual prototyping of complex mechanical systems. Multibody dynamics plays today a central role in the modeling, analysis, simulation and optimization of mechanical systems in a variety of ?elds and for a wide range of industrial applications. The ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics was ini- ated in Lisbon in 2003, and then continued in Madrid in 2005 with the goal of providing researchers in Multibody Dynamics with appropriate venues for exchanging ideas and results. The third edition of the Conference was held at the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, from June 25 to June 28, 2007. The Conference saw the participation of over 250 researchers from 32 di?- ent countries, presenting 209 technical papers, and proved to be an excellent forum for discussion and technical exchange on the most recent advances in this rapidly growing ?eld.

Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators
Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators

Author: Serdar Küçük

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9535104373

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The robotics is an important part of modern engineering and is related to a group of branches such as electric

New Advances in Mechanisms, Mechanical Transmissions and Robotics
New Advances in Mechanisms, Mechanical Transmissions and Robotics

Author: Erwin-Christian Lovasz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-14

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 3030600769

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This volume gathers the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XIII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIV International Conference on Robotics (Robotics), held in Timişoara, Romania. It addresses the applications of mechanisms and transmissions in several modern technical fields such as mechatronics, biomechanics, machines, micromachines, robotics and apparatus. In doing so, it combines theoretical findings and experimental testing. The book presents peer-reviewed papers written by researchers specialized in mechanism analysis and synthesis, dynamics of mechanisms and machines, mechanical transmissions, biomechanics, precision mechanics, mechatronics, micromechanisms and microactuators, computational and experimental methods, CAD in mechanism and machine design, mechanical design of robot architecture, parallel robots, mobile robots, micro and nano robots, sensors and actuators in robotics, intelligent control systems, biomedical engineering, teleoperation, haptics, and virtual reality.

Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science
Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science

Author: Tadeusz Uhl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 4203

ISBN-13: 3030201317

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This book gathers the proceedings of the 15th IFToMM World Congress, which was held in Krakow, Poland, from June 30 to July 4, 2019. Having been organized every four years since 1965, the Congress represents the world’s largest scientific event on mechanism and machine science (MMS). The contributions cover an extremely diverse range of topics, including biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, design methodologies, dynamics of machinery, multibody dynamics, gearing and transmissions, history of MMS, linkage and mechanical controls, robotics and mechatronics, micro-mechanisms, reliability of machines and mechanisms, rotor dynamics, standardization of terminology, sustainable energy systems, transportation machinery, tribology and vibration. Selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, they highlight numerous exciting advances and ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.

Optimization Techniques for Problem Solving in Uncertainty
Optimization Techniques for Problem Solving in Uncertainty

Author: Tilahun, Surafel Luleseged

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1522550925

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When it comes to optimization techniques, in some cases, the available information from real models may not be enough to construct either a probability distribution or a membership function for problem solving. In such cases, there are various theories that can be used to quantify the uncertain aspects. Optimization Techniques for Problem Solving in Uncertainty is a scholarly reference resource that looks at uncertain aspects involved in different disciplines and applications. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics including uncertain preference, fuzzy multilevel programming, and metaheuristic applications, this book is geared towards engineers, managers, researchers, and post-graduate students seeking emerging research in the field of optimization.

Space Flight
Space Flight

Author: George Dekoulis

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1789232821

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Space has always been intriguing people's imagination. However, space flight has only been feasible over the last 60 years. The collective effort of distinguished international researchers, within the field of space flight, has been incorporated into this book suitable to the broader audience. The book has been edited by Prof. George Dekoulis, Aerospace Engineering Institute (AEI), Cyprus, an expert on the state-of-the-art implementations of reconfigurable space physics systems. The book consists of six sections, namely, "Introduction," "Spacecraft Simulators," "Spacecraft Navigation," "Spacecraft Propulsion," "Suborbital Flight," and "Deep-Space Flight." We hope that this book will be beneficial for professionals, researchers, and academicians and inspires the younger generations into pursuing relevant academic studies and professional careers within the space industry.