Flexible pins eliminate the need for straddle mounting, and therefore enable the maximum possible number of planets to be used for any particular epicyclic ratio of power transmission systems. Having more planet gears will significantly increase the input torque density. In this type of design, the pin stiffness and position tolerances are important parameters as they affect the dynamic perform...

A fault diagnosis method based on wavelet and adaptive interference canceling is presented for the identification of a damaged gear tooth. A damaged tooth of a certain gear chain generates impulsive signals that could be informative to fault detections. Many publications are available not only for the impulsive vibration signal analysis but the application of signal processing techniques to the...

Application of the high-frequency acoustic emission (AE) technique in condition monitoring of rotating machinery has been growing over recent years. This is particularly true for bearing defect diagnosis and seal rubbing (Mba et al., 1999, 2003, 2005; Kim et al., 2007; Siores & Negro, 1997). The main drawback with the application of the AE technique is the attenuation of the signal and as such ...

Introduction Gears are highly engineered machine elements that must be designed not only to meet the torque, speed, life and noise requirements under nominal conditions, but also to compensate for adverse effects due to manufacturing errors, variations and elastic deformations of the support structures. In addition to the elastic deformation of the support and structures, manufacturing errors i...

A harmonic drive is a compact, lightweight, and high-ratio torque transmission device which is used in many electrically actuated robot manipulators. In this paper a builtin torque sensor for harmonic-drive systems is examined in detail. The method proposed by Hashimoto, in which strain gauges are directly mounted on the flexspline, is employed and improved in this paper. To minimize sensing in...

The effect of gear contact state change due to shaft misalignment on meshing stiffness is usually neglected in the traditional calculation model with error, further influence mechanism dynamic characteristics also unclear. To address these shortcomings, a new mesh misaligned considering effects tooth proposed by combining improved loaded analysis (LTCA) model. Then changes aroused excitation ar...