Recent Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications

1. Engineering Applications

   1. Parameter Analysis and Optimal Design of Energy Storage Device for Non-powered Walking Aid

      • Fanyu Meng, Wenxiang Zhao, Rui Wang, Zhixiu Hao

      Pages 161-171

   2. The Design and Analysis of Autonomous Underwater Pipeline Inspection Robots

      • Fujie Yu, Yuan Chen

      Pages 172-181

   3. Novel Solution for the Mechanism Used in the Actuation of Intelligent Roof Windows

      • Carmen Sticlaru, Petrisor Laurentiu Tuca, Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Corina-Mihaela Gruescu, Inocenţiu Maniu, Cristian Emil Moldovan

      Pages 182-191

   4. Design and Kinematic Analysis of a Novel Wire-Driven Spherical Scissors Mechanism

      • Ruiqin Li, Ziwei Liu, Wenbo Mi, Shaoping Bai, Jianwei Zhang

      Pages 192-200

2. Machinery Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Numerical Simulations of the Dynamic Pressure Oil-Gas Separator

      • Yutao Yan, Yao Yu, Zhili Sun, Xulei Su

      Pages 203-212

   3. A New Dynamic Model to Predict Vibration of Cylindrical Roller Bearings with Clearance and Off-Sized Roller Defects

      • Huimin Dong, Kui Zhang, Chu Zhang

      Pages 213-222

   4. The Analysis for Stress Intensity Factor of Three-Dimensional Crack Under Combined Action of Friction Force and Tension

      • Yutao Yan, Yibo Zhang, Xin Wu, Wendong Li

      Pages 223-232

   5. A Directly Coupled Finite Element – Meshless Method with Varying Dilation Parameter

      • Yaqing Zhang, Wenjie Ge, Ziang Zhang, Xiaojuan Mo, Yonghong Zhang

      Pages 233-243

3. Parallel Manipulators

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Kinematics and Dynamics Simulation Analysis of a 3-DOF Parallel Mechanism for Application in Hybrid Machine

      • Haiqiang Zhang, Hairong Fang, Dan Zhang, Xueling Luo, Fuqun Zhao

      Pages 247-258

   3. Kinematics and Singularity Analysis of a Novel Uncoupled 2-DOF Rotational Parallel Mechanism

      • Keming Wang, Yanbin Zhang, Xianling Jing

      Pages 259-269

   4. Performance Analysis and Comparison of Three Planar Parallel Manipulators

      • Xiaoyong Wu, Ran Yan, Zhaowei Xiang, Fangyan Zheng, Rulong Tan

      Pages 270-279

   5. Singularity Loci of a New Four-Limb Parallel Schönflies-Motion Generator

      • Guanglei Wu, Huiping Shen, Wenkang Zhao, Zirong Lin

      Pages 280-289

   6. Kinematics and Multi-mode Application of a Novel Self-assembling Robot with Parallel Structure

      • Fuqun Zhao, Sheng Guo, Xiangyang Wang, Majun Song

      Pages 290-300

   7. Design and Analysis of a New 5-DOF Hybrid Serial-Parallel Manipulator

      • Yundou Xu, Zhenghe Xu, Fan Yang, Youen Mei, Yi Yue, Yulin Zhou et al.

      Pages 301-311

   8. Kinematics Research of Chewing Robot Based on Six-Axis Parallel Mechanism

      • Xingyu Zhou, Jinghu Yu

      Pages 312-321

   9. Dynamic Model and Simulation Analysis of a 3-DOF Parallel Mechanism

      • Jiaxun Li, Jian Liu, Hongjuan Hou, Liyong Huang

      Pages 322-331

   10. U-Joint Induced Torsional Instabilities of a Family of 3-DOF Partially-Decoupled Spherical Parallel Manipulators

       • Guanglei Wu, Stéphane Caro

       Pages 332-343

   11. Conceptual Design of a 2-DoF Planar High-Speed Industrial Parallel Manipulator

       • Emre Uzunoğlu, Merve Özkahya, Erkan Paksoy, Barış Taner, M. İ. Can Dede, Gökhan Kiper

       Pages 344-353

Gathering the proceedings of the conference MeTrApp 2019, this book covers topics such as mechanism and machinery design, parallel manipulators, robotics and mechatronics, control applications, mechanical transmissions, cam and gear mechanisms, and dynamics of machinery. MeTrApp 2019 provided researchers, scientists, industry experts, and graduate students from around the globe with a platform to share their cutting-edge work on mechanisms, transmissions, and their applications. The proceedings extend this platform to all researchers, scientists, industry experts, and students interested in these fields.

• Mechanism and Machine Design
• Biomechanics and Medical Engineering
• Mechanical Transmissions and Gears
• Micromechanisms and Microactuators
• Dynamics of Mechanisms and Machines
• Parallel Manipulators
• Robotics and Mechatronics
• Control Applications
• Mechanical Transmissions
• Cam and Gear Mechanisms
• Dynamics of Machinery

• School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  Delun Wang

• Mechanical Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

  Victor Petuya

• Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  Yan Chen

• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

  Shudong Yu

Delun Wang is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. His research interests include kinematic geometry of mechanisms, methodology of machine design, and accuracy design for machinery. He has participated in more than 20 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program), etc. He served as Co-Chair of the Consultancy Committee of Teaching for Basic Program of Mechanical Engineering at the Ministry of Education of China (2013–2017, 2018–2022), as Chair of the Teaching and Researching Committee of Theory of Mechanisms and Machine of China (2012–2016), on the Technical Committee of IFToMM Computing Kinematics, and as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (2009–2013). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Víctor Petuya received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country, Spain, in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the same university, in 2003. From 1995 to 1998, he worked as a design and analysis engineer for several aerospace projects at a private engineering firm. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU). His research interests include advanced mechanical design and analysis, computational kinematics of planar and spatial mechanisms, particularly parallel manipulators, and biokinematics. He is the Chairman of the IFToMM Technical Committee for Linkages and Mechanical Controls. He has (co-)authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Yan Chen is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, China, and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design, Ministry of Education. Before joining Tianjin University, she worked at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2005 to 2012. Her research interests include the design methodology of deployable structures, modeling of overconstrained mechanisms and their kinematic analysis, structural design of metamaterials, and their applications in large-scale deployable structures for aeronautic engineering, new lightweight structures, and surgical foldable structures. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2015. She has (co-)authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and two monographs.

Shudong Yu is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ryerson University, Canada, where his work focuses on flexile multiple-body dynamics with applications in mechanisms, machine dynamics, chaos and bifurcations in large-scale nonlinear dynamical systems, and flow-induced vibration. He has been a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering since 2001 and served as Vice President (Ontario) of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering(2002–2009). He has (co-)authored over 60 papers published in respected peer-reviewed journals.

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