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Scalable six bar linkage mechanism for re-orienting and aligning objects: Design methodology
- Source :
- Procedia CIRP. 97:66-70
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper summarizes the work done in the context of an industrial research project in collaboration between the Italian Institute of Technology and the company Fameccanica Data Spa. This paper introduces the design of a six bar linkage mechanism, actuated by a single motor, for re-orienting and aligning objects. The main application consists of grasping empty bottles lying flat on an input conveyor, rotating, aligning and placing them in upright position on another conveyor. The breakthrough aspect of the general and scalable design introduced lays in a system of kinematic equations whose solutions correspond to the linkage lengths. Such lengths define a six-bar-linkage able to re-orient and align vertically a generic object. Finally, this paper presents the mechanism prototype created for such industrial application for performing tests in an operational environment at high speed.
- Subjects :
- 0209 industrial biotechnology
Engineering drawing
Kinematics
Applied research
Industrial automation
Scalable design
Computer science
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Linkage (mechanical)
Cinemàtica
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
law.invention
020901 industrial engineering & automation
Informàtica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
law
Design methods
Six-bar linkage
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
business.industry
Object (computer science)
Automation
Mechanism (engineering)
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22128271
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Procedia CIRP
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2fc9785fc692841ac3e51a37bf4ba4fd