Open AccessBuilding a conceptual model of the chain harmonic drive
Author(s) -
S. V. Kamenev
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1333/5/052008
Subject(s) - harmonic , chain (unit) , cad , software , computer science , harmonic drive , basis (linear algebra) , engineering , mechanical engineering , engineering drawing , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , astronomy , programming language
The harmonic drive is a relatively new type of mechanical drives which application increases continuously in different fields of the industry. The rapid growth of application is driven by a number of advantages in comparison to the conventional drives such as gear and belt drives. The effective use of the harmonic drive, however, is limited because of difficulties in designing of such drives. One of the problems is the non-optimal typical design of the harmonic drive that can be improved in different ways. They include designing the harmonic drives in the framework of the closed roller chain using different modelling approaches. The mathematical modelling on the basis of CAD/CAE software appears to be the most effective of them. This article presents the method for building an alternate design of the harmonic drive based on the standard roller chain using commercial software «Siemens NX». Implementation of this method involves the CAD-modelling and multibody simulation to obtain the final geometry of the drive.