Machines, Volume 11, Issue 6

In this research, we propose a method that utilizes machine learning to maintain the parallelism of the resonant cavity in a Fabry–Perot interferometer designed specifically for glass substrates. Based on the optical principle and theory, we es...

Gripping and manipulating objects using non-contact and low-contact technologies is becoming increasingly necessary in manufacturing. One of the promising contactless gripping technologies is Bernoulli gripping devices for industrial robots. They hav...

This paper proposes a decentralized robust constrained cost fuzzy controller (DRCCFC) design for nonlinear descriptor interconnected systems (DIS) with uncertainties. The considered nonlinear DIS is modeled using Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model (T-S...

Three-dimensional topography measurement is a focus area of precision machining because it provides detailed information on the functional behavior of contacting surfaces. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the process parameters and the edg...

Diamond needs to have a perfectly smooth surface due to the growing requirements in the fields of electronic semiconductors, optical windows and high-fidelity loudspeakers. However, the polishing of diamonds is highly challenging due to their excepti...

Outrunner brushless DC motors (BLDC) are a type of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) widely used in electric micro-mobility vehicles, such as scooters, electric bicycles, wheelchairs, and segways, among others. Those vehicles have many operat...

At high speeds and under large axial forces, the disc–drum combined structure exhibits inconsistent deformation between parts. The difference in the structural characteristics of different parts, the speed, the preload, and its distribution mod...

Continuum manipulators, with their characteristics of flexibility and dexterity, have gained significant interest in various applications across industries such as inspection, manufacturing, space exploration, and medical surgery. However, because of...

A tamping machine is the key equipment of large coking coal cake forming in the steelmaking industry, where the loose coal is compacted into a coal cake by the reciprocating movement of its tamping hammer. In the long-term friction process, the third...

The Complete Coverage Path Planning (CCPP) is a key technology in the field of agricultural robots, and has great significance for improving the efficiency and quality of tillage, fertilization, harvesting, and other agricultural robot operations, as...

Efficient navigation of off-road vehicles heavily relies on the ability to accurately model the interaction between the vehicle and the terrain. One of the most important parts of this interaction is the deformation of the terrain and the tire. Altho...

Wheeled machines, such as agricultural tractors, snowplows, and wheeled mobile robots, usually work on icy or snow-covered roads. Therefore, it is very important to study the driving and slip resistance of the tires of these machines. In this paper,...

Aiming at the problems of speed overshoot, slow convergence and poor anti-interference in the control of permanent-magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) without a position sensor, a pulse vibration high-frequency signal injection method for a permanent-m...

A series of experiments were performed aiming at controlling milling force-induced surface errors in the robot-assisted milling process, for the sub-area of the multi-stiffener reinforced inner wall of complex cylindrical thin-walled casting parts, t...

The automotive industry is experiencing increasing competition, and vehicle development is becoming increasingly complex. Manufacturers must therefore be able to rapidly compare the outcomes of experimental tests carried out under different condition...

In the face of large-scale environmental mapping requirements, through the use of lightweight and inexpensive robot groups to perceive the environment, the multi-robot cooperative (V)SLAM scheme can resolve the individual cost, global error accumulat...

Dynamic performance is an important performance of robots used for machine processing. This paper studies the dynamic modeling and evaluation method of a 5-DOF (Degree of Freedom) hybrid robot used in aerospace composite material processing. With the...

Hydrogen and ammonia are primary carbon-free fuels that have massive production potential. In regard to their flame properties, these two fuels largely represent the two extremes among all fuels. The extremely fast flame speed of hydrogen can lead to...

Base stability for a wheeled robot while driving over rough terrain is a challenging issue. This paper proposes a novel base-stability control framework, consisting of an AVIC (adaptive variable-impedance control), AVIC-based tracking controller, and...

Friction losses are an important parameter for evaluating the operational behaviour of high-speed rolling bearings. Specifically, in machine tool applications, the bearings are subjected to high radial loads and high speeds, which lead to increased f...

Differential evolution is a popular algorithm for solving global optimization problems. When tested, it has reportedly outperformed both robotic problems and benchmarks. However, it may have issues with local optima or premature convergence. In this...

This article investigates the neutral voltage difference signal, V_NO signal, for fault diagnosis. The aforementioned signal is the signal of the voltage between the common star point of the stator and the common star point of the load. The under-stud...

The fault diagnosis of a gearbox is crucial to ensure its safe operation. Entropy has become a common tool for measuring the complexity of time series. However, entropy bias may occur when the data are not long enough or the scale becomes larger. Thi...

With the continuous increase in power demand in aerospace, shipping, electricity, and other industries, a series of manufacturing requirements such as high precision, complex structure, and thin wall have been put forward for gas turbines. Gas turbin...

In mechanical cutting and machining, self-excited vibration known as “Chatter” often occurs, adversely affecting a product’s quality and tool life. This article proposes a method to identify chatter by applying a machine learning mo...

Considering rotation-induced centrifugal stiffening, spin softening, and Coriolis effects, the reduced dynamic model of a rotating blade with a dovetail fixture is established in the ANSYS environment via the fixed-interface method for higher computa...

Due to complex component interactions and multidisciplinary and possibly conflicting requirements, it is challenging to identify appropriate design goals for individual components to keep the vibration of a mechanical system below a specified level....

Multi-cell hexagonal tubes have been applied in a wide range of industries. The present study investigates strengthening a single regular hexagonal tube under a dynamic axial load with three different geometrical shapes. The results are then compared...

This paper suggests a hierarchical coordination control strategy to enhance the stability of distributed drive electric bus. First, an observer based on sliding mode observer (SMO) and adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was designed to es...

Determination of the diagnosis thresholds is crucial for the fault diagnosis of industry assets. Rotor machines under different working conditions are especially challenging because of the dynamic torque and speed. In this paper, an advanced machine...

During various marine container handling operations, performed mainly in larger-scale container terminals, containers get damaged regularly. Our previous studies showed that each physical impact results in some form of physical deformation of the bac...

Hybrid Manufacturing technologies enable the manufacturability and high manufacturing efficiency of innovative part designs comprising high complexity features which could not otherwise be manufactured in a single or a small number of steps. This stu...

The outcome economy is a relatively new economic and business paradigm that promotes focusing on the effects that the use of provided products and services create for customers in their markets, rather than focusing on these products or services them...

Filament winding reinforcement is often applied to fulfill high-pressure resistance and is lightweight for gas cylinder productions. This article analyzes the winding pattern and the corresponding characteristics for filament winding cylinders based...

The drive towards smart and sustainable manufacturing is leading companies to opt for environmentally conscious technologies. This study assesses the environmental and financial feasibility of using additive manufacturing, in this case, fused filamen...

In the present work, functional properties of three different types of regular microreliefs, formed by ball burnishing process on flat surfaces are evaluated. For their estimation, heights and material ratio curve’s criteria were used, accordin...

The operating environment of rolling bearings in mine hoists is complicated, and detecting their faults is hindered by a weak and unstable initial vibration signal. This directly affects the ability to extract pertinent fault features. This paper put...

To achieve multi-objective aerodynamics design optimization for a 1.5-stage transonic compressor, a design platform incorporating blade parameterization methods, a BPNN surrogate model, and the NSGA-II optimization method was developed. The stagger a...

A control strategy for a certain class of hypersonic flight aircraft dynamic models with unknown parameters is proposed in this article. The strategy is adaptive dynamic surface input quantization control. To address the issues in conventional invers...

Educational robotics is a valuable tool in education and therapy for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), especially when introduced in activities, combined with gamification and storytelling elements. However, the lack of familiarity of...

TC4 (DIN3.7164/5) alloy thin-walled parts are widely used in aviation and aerospace industries. However, due to their special structure, shape and poor machinability, large milling forces and milling deformation often occur in the milling process, wh...

Relying on the research and development project of an auxiliary device for a submarine cable to cross a steel pipeline, with regard to a long-distance submarine cable crossing a pipeline, combined with a pipe-climbing robot and the laying of the subm...

Due to their advantages of compact size, high reduction ratio, large stiffness and high load capacity, RV reducers have been widely used in industrial robots. The dynamic characteristics of RV reducers in terms of vibratory response and dynamic trans...

Switched reluctance motors (SRMs) received major interest in several domains, e.g., in electric vehicles. This interest is due to the many advantages of SRMs, including operation at a wide range of speeds, high performances, low cost, robustness to r...

As the use of interleaved DC–DC converters in electric vehicles (EVs) increases, research on reliability improvement is required. In the case of interleaved DC–DC converters, degradation occurs between transistors and capacitors. In parti...

During the operation of valve-controlled cylinder position systems, there are some problems, such as uncertainty and time-varying of the system parameters, imprecise modeling, and external interference. These problems will affect the position loading...

Amplifiers are among the most commonly used circuits in electronics, performing a variety of functions in a wide range of electronic systems. Depending on the application and design, each amplifier generates waste heat. For power amplifiers that oper...

Designing an industrial robot gripper suitable for today’s industry is a challenging task due to the rapid evolution of products. Industrial robots are involved in machining, the transfer of parts, control and assembly, and the number of tasks...

Positive displacement pumps are widely employed for their characteristics, but the pulsating flow they produce is a major and well-known drawback. To reduce the flow ripple produced by the pump, which in turn generates a pressure ripple, many methods...

This paper discusses a mechanism for integrating locomotion with cognition in robots. We demonstrate an attentional ability model that can dynamically change the focus of its perceptual area by integrating attention and perception to generate behavio...