Presenting a Railbound Forging Manipulator

Abstract

Heavy payload forging manipulators are mainly characterized by large load output and large capacitive load input. The relationships between outputs and inputs have greatly influence about the control and the reliability. Forging manipulators have become more prevalent in the industry today. They are used to manipulate objects to be forged. The most common forging manipulators are moving on a railway to have a greater precision and stability. They have been called the railbound forging manipulators. In this paper one presents the general aspects of a railbound forging manipulator, like geometry, structure, general kinematics and forces of the main mechanism from such manipulator. Kinematic scheme shows a typical forging manipulator, with the basic motions in operation process: walking, motion of the tong and buffering. The lifting mechanism consists of several parts including linkages, hydraulic drives and motion pairs. An idea of establishing the incidence relationship between output characteristics and actuator inputs is proposed.