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Scaling laws for motor-gearbox arrangements
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Research towards (compliant) actuators, especially redundant ones like the Series Parallel Elastic Actuator (SPEA), has led to the development of drive trains, which have demonstrated to increase efficiency, torque-to-mass-ratio, power-to-mass ratio, etc.
In the field of robotics such drive trains can be implemented, enabling technological improvements like safe, adaptable and energy-efficient robots.
The choice of the used motor and transmission system, as well as the compliant elements composing the drive train, are highly dependent of the application and more specifically on the allowable weight and size.
In order to optimally design an actuator adapted to the desired characteristics and the available space, scaling laws governing the specific actuator can simplify and enhance the reliability of the design process.
Although scaling laws of electric motors and links are known, none have been investigated for a complete redundant drive train.
The present study proposes to fill this gap by providing scaling laws for electric motors in combination with their transmission system.
These laws are extended towards parallelization, i.e. replacing one big motor with gearbox by several smaller ones in parallel.
The results of this study show that the torque/mass ratio for a motor-gearbox can not be increased by parallelization, but that it can increase the torque/volume ratio.
This is however only the case if a good topology is chosen.
In the field of robotics such drive trains can be implemented, enabling technological improvements like safe, adaptable and energy-efficient robots.
The choice of the used motor and transmission system, as well as the compliant elements composing the drive train, are highly dependent of the application and more specifically on the allowable weight and size.
In order to optimally design an actuator adapted to the desired characteristics and the available space, scaling laws governing the specific actuator can simplify and enhance the reliability of the design process.
Although scaling laws of electric motors and links are known, none have been investigated for a complete redundant drive train.
The present study proposes to fill this gap by providing scaling laws for electric motors in combination with their transmission system.
These laws are extended towards parallelization, i.e. replacing one big motor with gearbox by several smaller ones in parallel.
The results of this study show that the torque/mass ratio for a motor-gearbox can not be increased by parallelization, but that it can increase the torque/volume ratio.
This is however only the case if a good topology is chosen.
Boek: Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020)
Series: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Pagina's: 6339-6346
Aantal pagina's: 8
Jaar van publicatie:2020
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