Optimisation Design of Six-Bar Double Dwell Mechanisms: A New Approach

Abstract:

This paper introduces a new approach for me-chanical design of planar six-bar linkages with rotary joints which produce two dwells in each cycle of the input crank. The approach builds on the concept of function generation in a simple manner. The synthesis problem is posed as a single-objective constrained optimisation problem. A genetic algorithm-based optimisation scheme, namely the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) has been used for solving the optimisation problem. The proposed method has been illustrated by means of an example problem from a recent contribution to literature. It is seen that the results compare favourably with the existing work.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 110-116)
• Pages: 5216-5222
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.110-116.5216
• Online since: October 2011
• Authors: Mohan Jagannath
• Keywords: Coupler-Curve, Dwell, Optimization, Six-Bar Mechanisms, Synthesis

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