Abstract

Epicyclic Gear Transmission Systems (EGTs) find a wide variety of applications in automatic transmission systems due to their flexibility to deliver a variety of speed ratios. The design of EGT involves the enumeration of all possible layouts, typically called structural synthesis. Thus, the structural synthesis of an EGT consists of defining a topology for EGT with coupled planetary gear trains (PGTs) along with constraining elements such as connections, brakes, and clutches while delivering a definite transmission ratio between the input and output shafts. Given the number of PGTs, permanent connection, clutches, and brakes, the methodology systematically introduces these elements of PGTs to deliver the given number of distinct speed ratios. Determining the number of distinct speed ratios for a given combination of brakes and clutches has been expressed as a transformation of a graph representation of the EGT layout. A computer program has been developed for the structural synthesis of EGTs and validated against the 3 epicyclic, 6-speed EGT systems. The viability aspects of the synthesized structure are carried out. Also, an isomorphism test is addressed in the synthesis methodology to detect unique EGT structures at every synthesis stage.

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