Direction Of Horizontal Motion Research Articles

Numerical Modelling and Simulation of Dynamic Parameters for Vibration Driven Mobile Robot: Preliminary Study

The motion of vibration-driven robots is based on an internal oscillating mass which can move without legs or wheels. The oscillation of the unbalanced mass by a motor is translated into vibration which in turn produces vertical and horizontal forces. Both vertical and horizontal oscillations are of the same frequency but the phases are shifted. The vertical forces will deflect the bristles which cause the robot to move forward. In this paper, the horizontal motion direction caused by the vertically vibrated bristle is numerically simulated by tuning the frequency of their oscillatory actuation. As a preliminary work, basic equations for a simple off-centered vibration location on the robot platform and simulation model for vibration excitement are introduced. It involves both static and dynamic vibration analysis of robots and analysis of different type of parameters. In addition, the orientation of the bristles and oscillators are also analysed. Results from the numerical integration seem to be in good agreement with those achieved from the literature. The presented numerical integration modeling can be used for designing the bristles and controlling the speed and direction of the robot.

Dynamic characteristics of NC table with SVD

This paper employs the SVD (singular value decomposition) method to study dynamic characteristics of a numerical control (NC) table. Acceleration signals of the NC table at three directions are tested; the singular spectrum of the signals is acquired with SVD; principal components of the signals are found out; dynamic characteristics of the signals and their contributing factors are studied by extracting dynamic characteristics of principal components; and signals and principal components are quantitatively analyzed by calculating signal energy. Results indicate that signal characteristics of the previous two principal components are apparent, based on which dynamic characteristics of chaotic signal can be extracted. Signal at the perpendicular direction of the table is significantly correlated with that at the horizontal motion direction, which indicates that they are excited from the same vibration source. However, signals perpendicular to each other in terms of the motion direction at the horizontal level are rarely correlated; the total signal energy is maximum at the motion direction, minimum at the horizontal non-motion direction, and medium at the perpendicular non-motion direction. Bending vibration of the lead screw at the perpendicular direction is far more violent than that at the horizontal direction.

Planform structure of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

The planform structure of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection is obtained from visualising a liquid crystal sheet stuck to the bottom hot surface. The bottom plate of the convection cell is Plexiglas and the top plate is glass. Water is the 3est liquid and the Rayleigh number is 4 × 10 7. The planform pattern reveals randomly moving hot streaks surrounded by cold regions suggesting that turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection is dominated by quasi-two-dimensional randomly moving plumes. Simultaneous temperature traces from two vertically separated thermocouples indicate that these plumes may be inclined forward in the direction of horizontal motion. The periodic eruption of thermals observed by Sparrow et al [3] and which forms the basis of Howard's model is not observed.

The determination of glacier speed by time-lapse photography under unfavorable conditions

AbstractTwo practical problems in the use of time-lapse photography for the measurement of speed were encountered during the recent surge of West Fork Glacier in the central Alaska Range, Alaska, U.S.A. The first is severe rotational camera instability; we show how natural, unsurveyed features on the valley wall can be used to make the necessary corrections. The second problem is the computation of absolute speed when many different, unsurveyed glacier-surface features are used as targets. We give a method for connecting the data obtained from different targets, and for determining the scale using limited information obtained by surveying. Severe systematic errors can occur unless the angle between the axis of the lens and the direction of horizontal motion is determined.

The determination of glacier speed by time-lapse photography under unfavorable conditions

AbstractTwo practical problems in the use of time-lapse photography for the measurement of speed were encountered during the recent surge of West Fork Glacier in the central Alaska Range, Alaska, U.S.A. The first is severe rotational camera instability; we show how natural, unsurveyed features on the valley wall can be used to make the necessary corrections. The second problem is the computation of absolute speed when many different, unsurveyed glacier-surface features are used as targets. We give a method for connecting the data obtained from different targets, and for determining the scale using limited information obtained by surveying. Severe systematic errors can occur unless the angle between the axis of the lens and the direction of horizontal motion is determined.