Although bevel-gear robotic wrists are widely used in industrial manipulators due to their simple kinematics and low manufacturing cost, their gear trains function under rolling and sliding, the latter bringing about noise and vibration. Sliding is inherent to the straight teeth of the bevel gears of these trains. Moreover, unavoidable backlash introduces unmodeled dynamics, which mars robot pe...

A practical application of the spherical involute surface to the forged straight bevel gears is provided and demonstrated in this work. Conjugate (pure involute) theoretical surfaces are developed from the input design parameters. The surfaces are modified to suit the actual application (automotive differential). The unloaded (or low load) tooth contact analysis of modified surfaces is performe...

In this paper, an integrated approach for gear health prognostics using particle filters is presented. The presented method effectively addresses the issues in applying particle filters to gear health prognostics by integrating several new components into a particle filter: (1) data mining based techniques to effectively define the degradation state transition and measurement functions using a ...

a practical application of the spherical involute surface to the forged straight bevel gears is provided and demonstrated in this work. conjugate (pure involute) theoretical surfaces are developed from the input design parameters. the surfaces are modified to suit the actual application (automotive differential). the unloaded (or low load) tooth contact analysis of modified surfaces is performe...

Formany years the transmission industry has had a major impact on the design of mechanical parts. In addition to geometric quality of the forging process, netshaped bevel gears ofer new ways to decrease cots and to increase mechanical properties. This paper deals with the dificulty in applying classical quality inspection to forged bevel gears. We developed a new approach based on entities and ...

Damage progression tests were performed in the NASA Glenn Spiral Bevel Gear Fatigue Rig. Six gear sets with varying levels of tooth damage were tested, and vibration-based gear condition indicators, amount of debris generated, and oil temperatures were measured. The damage state was documented with photographs taken at inspection intervals throughout the test and was quantified with a numerical...

Modeling of bevel gear cutting processes requires highly flexible data structures and algorithms. We compare OpenMP3.0 tasks with previously applied approaches like nesting parallel sections and stack based algorithms when parallelizing recursive procedures written in Fortran 95 working on binary tree structures.

In-flight vibration measurements from the transmission of an OH-58C KIOWA are analyzed. In order to understand the effect of normal flight variation on signal shape, the first gear mesh components of the planetary gear system and bevel gear are studied in detail. Systematic patterns occur in the amplitude and phase of these signal components with implications for making time synchronous average...