Engineering Technical Conference Research Articles

Special Issue: Selected Papers from IDETC-CIE 2023

Abstract This special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR) draws on papers presented at the 47th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of the 2023 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2023), held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 20-23, 2023.

Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC-CIE 2022

Abstract This special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR) draws on papers presented at the 46th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of the 2022 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2022), held in St. Louis, Missouri, August 14-17, 2022.

Selected Papers From the 18th International Conference On Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (msndc) At Idetc-cie 2022

Abstract We are delighted to bring to the readers of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the 18th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), held during the 2022 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conferences.

Special Section: Highlights of CIE 2022

Abstract This special section contains a selection of six papers from the 42nd American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference that was held in St. Louis, Missouri August 14-17, 2022, in conjunction with the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC). Nominated by the four technical committees namely Advanced Modeling and Simulation (AMS), Computer Aided Product and Process Development (CAPPD), Systems Engineering, Information and Knowledge Management (SEIKM), and Virtual Environments and Systems (VES) based on the conference paper review results, these papers reflect recent and relevant advancements in these technical areas.

Special Issue: Highlights of CIE 2021

Abstract This special issue contains a selection of papers from the 41st American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference that was held virtually, August 17-19, 2021, in conjunction with the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC).

A Zero Trust Hybrid Security and Safety Risk Analysis Method

Abstract Designing complex, socio-technical, cyber-physical systems has become increasingly challenging in recent years. Interdependencies between engineering domains can lead to emergent behavior that is difficult to predict and manage. The recent shift toward model-based design has demonstrated significant advantages for minimizing these challenges (McDermott et al. 2020. Benchmarking the benefits and current maturity of model-based systems engineering across the enterprise. results of the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) maturity survey, part 1: Executive summary. Technical Report SERC-2020-SR-001, Systems Engineering Research Center.). Further, the early identification of safety and security design weaknesses in safety-critical systems leads to reduced redesign costs in later design phases (Yang and EI-Haik, 2003. Design for Six Sigma. McGraw-Hill, New York City; Clausing and Frey, 2005. Improving system reliability by failure-mode avoidance including four concept design strategies. Systems Engineering, 8(3), pp. 245–261.). As a result, this article contributes the Multidisciplinary Early Design Risk Assessment Framework (MEDRAF) methodology for early combined safety and security assessment based on interdisciplinary dependency models of a system. The focus is on factors contributing to the estimation of the probabilities of successful attacks on system components. The Zero Trust paradigm is applied in which all humans, hardware, and processes interacting with the system are considered to pose a security risk. A calculation of security-related probability estimates is presented which is dependent on the current global security environment. Subsequently, security and safety probability estimates are combined to present an overall safety-security risk calculation using hybrid safety-security trees. The risk values help designers assess the loss of specific key components and safety functions. The methodology is demonstrated with a case study of a spent fuel pool cooling system in a nuclear reactor. The results of the case study show that the risk of losing one key system component doubles when combining security and safety compared to only assessing safety events. This paper is based on a paper presented at the CIE 2020 conference (Papakonstantinou et al., 2020. Towards a zero trust hybrid security and safety risk analysis method. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.).

Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC-CIE 2021

Abstract The ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics invites papers for a special issue drawing on papers from the 45th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of the 2021 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2021). Sponsored by the Mechanisms and Robotics Technical Committee of the ASME Design Engineering Division, this annual gathering will take place virtually August 17-20, 2021.

Special Issue: Highlights of 2019 CIE Conference

This special issue contains a selection of papers from the 39th American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference that was held in Anaheim, CA, August 18–21, 2019, in conjunction with the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC).

Special Issue: Selected Papers From 2019 IDETC-CIE, MSNDC, and VIB Conferences

It is with great pleasure that we bring to the readership of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conferences. The 2019 IDETC-CIE conferences took place in Anaheim, CA, from August 18–21.We started this project motivated by our conviction that organizing a JCND special issue tied to the Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics and Controls (MSNDC) Conference, as well as the Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB) Conference, is long overdue. Last year, we had the 16th and 32nd editions of the MSNDC and VIB conferences, respectively. These two peer-reviewed conferences, whose focus includes vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and multibody systems, have provided an international venue where our colleagues have presented an early glimpse into their highest-quality research. Following a parallel path, JCND was established in 2005, and under the effective leadership and steady guidance of Professors Subhash C. Sinha, Ahmed Shabana, and Bala Balachandran, this journal has become in short order a premier ASME journal with a current impact factor of 2.135.We happily took this opportunity to act on a project that we believe will help the MSNDC and VIB conferences, the JCND journal, and most importantly, the community at large. Indeed, we hope that through the publication of this special issue, its international readership will be reminded of the ASME IDETC-CIE conferences and their continued impact over the years. Perhaps this special issue will provide extra motivation for scholars to participate yet again, or perhaps for the first time, in this annual gathering of experts, students, and people new to the field. Conversely, the JCND will stand to benefit from bringing to its readership a selection of the best papers presented at the conference. The biggest winner, though, is the community at large. First, anyone who missed the Anaheim event will find in this special issue some of the conference highlights. Moreover, it is only fitting that a group of colleagues who took the time and effort to report on their recent research at the conference receive recognition for their hard and innovative work through this special issue, and it must be great work indeed given that the papers were selected through a rigorous peer selection and review process. The conference paper reviewers recommended a larger collection of manuscripts, which was then trimmed by the symposium organizers, before being down-selected yet again by our four-person group. The remaining manuscripts went through the standard JCND review process. The manuscripts that cleared this last hurdle make up this special issue. We hope you will enjoy them.We are indeed very happy to have had the opportunity to work on this special issue and start what we hope will become an annual tradition. Special thanks to Professor Bala Balachandran for giving us the green light on this idea and to Amy Suski for helping us greatly at every step of the process. It was great working as a team on this project and we are excited to bring it to fruition.

Announcing the Journal of Mechanical Design 2018 Editors’ Choice Paper Award

I am pleased to announce that the winner for the 2018 Editors' Choice Paper Award: Zefang Shen, Gary Allison, and Lei Cui, “An Integrated Type and Dimensional Synthesis Method to Design One Degree-of-Freedom Planar Linkages With Only Revolute Joints for Exoskeletons,” J. Mech. Des., 140(9), p. 092302.The selection of this paper was based on the recommendations of the Associate and Guest Editors and guided by the following criteria: (i) fundamental value of the contribution, (ii) expectation of archival value (e.g., expected number of citations), (iii) practical relevance to mechanical design, and (iv) quality of presentation.Plaques were awarded to the authors during the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019) in Anaheim, California. I would like to congratulate the award recipients and look forward to continuing to work with the entire ASME community of editors, authors, reviewers, and staff to bring the Journal of Mechanical Design to the next level of excellence.

Special Issue: Highlights From ASME CIE 2018

Special Issue: Highlights From ASME CIE 2018

Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC 2018 (Parts I and II)

I am pleased to announce the inaugural special issue (Parts I and II) of the selected papers from the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) 2018, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Aug. 26–29, 2018. This special issue has been organized for the purpose of expediting the process of converting high quality ASME sponsored conference papers into submissions to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). The submission was by invitation only, based on the recommendations from the respective IDETC conference organizers.This year, the recommended list of papers from conference organizers represents roughly 15% of the IDETC papers from four conferences: (1) Design Automation, (2) Design Education, (3) Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle, and (4) Design Theory and Methodology. Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTGC) is held biannually, and there was no PTGC this year. Thanks to the hard work of the editorial board and the reviewers, the invited papers underwent an expedited review process which produced a good amount of high-quality papers for the special issue to be published in two parts: Part I in February 2019 and Part II in March 2019.In the past, it often took too long to reference the JMD version of an IDETC paper, which has a negative impact on the knowledge exchange in the field as well as the journal impact factor. I am pleased that with the special issue initiative this year, we have finished the review of invited IDETC papers within three months of the IDETC conferences. These accepted papers represent the state-of-the-art engineering design research in their respective topic areas, and they are made available online immediately after the final acceptance. I would also like to note that even if a paper is not among the recommended list from conference organizers, we continue to encourage authors to submit their work to the regular JMD issues whenever they feel ready. Please note that the IDETC conference paper copyright does not prevent authors from sending the same paper to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.The success of JMD is based on the scholarly contributions of authors, dedicated reviewers, staff members supporting the journal, and our board of Associate Editors who are leaders in their respective technical areas. Special thanks go to the following Associate Editors who played the critical role of coordinating the reviews of papers in this special issue: James Allison, Xiaoping Du, Scott Ferguson, Katja Holtta-Otto, Harrison Kim, Nam H. Kim, Gul E. Okudan Kremer, Mian Li, Christopher Mattson, Scarlett Miller, Samy Missoum, Tahira Reid, Carolyn Seepersad, G. Gary Wang, and Paul Witherell.As we learn from running this IDETC special issue for the first time in JMD, I look forward to hear feedback from the community and will work toward running the special IDETC issue again next year.

A Spatial Translational Cable Robot

In this paper, a novel design has been presented for a spatial translational cable-driven robot. The original design of this robot was introduced by Bosscher et al. (2005, “A concept for rapidly-deployable cable robot search and rescue systems,” DETC2005: ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Long Beach, CA). In this paper, a structure has been proposed to enhance the workspace of the robot. This has been done by using more cables in the mechanism. However, no extra actuator has been added to the robot. Additionally, a method has been proposed to obtain the workspace of the presented robot by calculating the available moment (AM) set in each point of space. The results imply that the workspace of the robot has been enhanced significantly by using the new design.

10th Anniversary Special Issue: From Fringe to Mainstream—We Have Come a Long Way

10th Anniversary Special Issue: From Fringe to Mainstream—We Have Come a Long Way

Study of the inertial effect and the nonlinearities of the CRONE suspension based on the hydropneumatic technology

In this paper, we emphasize two main effects involved in the CRONE car suspension technology (CRONE: French acronym for Commande Robuste d’Ordre Non Entier). In a first time, we present the influence of the inductive or inertial effect of the pipes that links the different cells of the hydropneumatic car suspension. These components are mainly resistive and capacitive devices. Then, we analyze the nonlinear relations that link the hydraulic power variables (the flow and the pressure) of the hydraulic resistors and the hydropneumatic accumulators and we study the effect of the nonlinear terms on the car suspension response. Our study is based on the gamma RC arrangement developed in Altet et al. (In: Analysis and design of hybrid systems—proceedings of ADHS03, pp. 63–68. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2003) and Serrier et al. (In: Proceedings of IDETC/CIE 2005: ASME 2005 international design engineering technical conferences and computers and information in engineering conference, Long Beach, CA, USA, 24–28 September 2005). In a second time, we focus only on the gamma RLC arrangement, introduced in Abi Zeid Daou et al. (Int. J. Electron. 96(12):1207–1223, 2009). We show whether the parasite effect due to the pipes or the nonlinear RC components affect the system’s response. The simulation results show that neither the inertial effect caused by these parasite pipes of one meter length nor the use of the nonlinear resistors or the accumulators modifies the response of the gamma RC arrangement.

JMD Editorial Board

JMD Editorial Board

Editorial

I am looking forward to this year's International Design Engineering Technical Conference, which occurs September 4–7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be my last IDETC as Editor of JMD, and I look forward to thanking the many individuals who have made the past five years such an excellent experience.They are, of course, our Associate Editors, who manage the review process. Their daily attention to the review of every paper, our Associate Editors ensure that the average time to a recommendation for JMD stays below six months.However, I also look forward to thanking our authors, who have responded by increasing both the number and quality of their submissions. Their attention to our journal has resulted in an impact factor that places JMD in the top 10 of Mechanical Engineering Journals and among the top three journals published by ASME.I am pleased to announce the addition of Prof. Hong-Sen Yan as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Mechanical Design.Professor Hong-Sen Yan received his PhD from Purdue University in 1980. He previously served as an Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University (Tainan), a Sr. Research Engineer at General Motor Research Laboratories (Michigan), an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (New York), and the Director-general of the National Science and Technology Museum (Kaohsiung). Currently, he is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan). Dr. Yan's areas of interests are mechanism and machine design, and ancient Chinese machinery; and he collects ancient Chinese locks as a hobby.

2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC2007) September 4–7, 2007 Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

On behalf of the ASME Design Engineering and Computers in Engineering Divisions, it is our great pleasure to invite you to attend and contribute to the 2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) which will take place on September 4–7, 2007, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas is easily accessible from anywhere in the world and combines the best of outdoor adventure and modern amenities. The conferences will also include plenary sessions, keynote lectures, and tutorials on different topics related to engineering design. A summary of these conferences is provided here:121st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB)227th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE)32007 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07)46th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC)533rd Design Automation Conference (DAC)610th ASME International Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTG)719th Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Conference (RSAFP)831st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MECH)91st International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS)104th Symposium on International Design and Design Education (DEC)1119th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM)12112th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC)Fig. 1Fig. 2

Determination of the maximal singularity-free zones in the six-dimensional workspace of the general Gough–Stewart platform

Abstract This paper addresses the singularity-free workspace analysis of the general Gough–Stewart platform. Unlike in serial mechanisms, where there exist only boundary singularities, the closed-loop nature of parallel mechanisms generates complex singularities inside the workspace, which makes the workspace analysis and the trajectory planning of parallel mechanisms a very difficult problem. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop algorithms that can locate singularity-free zones inside the workspace. The analytical expression of the six-dimensional singularity locus of the general Gough–Stewart platform was previously obtained by the authors [H.D. Li, C.M. Gosselin, M.J. Richard, B. Mayer St-Onge, Analytic form of the six-dimensional singularity locus of the general Gough–Stewart platform, in: Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference, September 28–October 2, Salt Lake City, USA, 2004]. In this paper, first, the singularity equation is briefly recalled. Then, based on the known singularity locus equation, three procedures are presented to determine singularity-free zones in the 3-D and 6-D workspace, respectively. The zones obtained are the maximal singularity-free spheres or hyper-spheres for a given centre configuration within a given workspace. The determination of these singularity-free zones does not involve any discretization of the workspace and the results obtained are guaranteed. Finally, numerical examples are given to graphically illustrate the procedures. The procedures can be applied to analyze other similar parallel mechanisms with known singularity equations.

Call for The D'Alembert Award for Multibody System Dynamics and The Lyapunov Award for Nonlinear Dynamics

The Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (MSND-TC) of the ASME Design Engineering Division solicits nominations for the D'Alembert Award and the Lyapunov Award. These awards will be presented at the 6th ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, as part of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, September, 2007.The D'Alembert Award is established to recognize lifelong contributions to the field of multibody system dynamics.The Lyapunov Award is established to recognize lifelong contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics.These awards recognize lifelong impact of research contributions, education and training of researchers and/or practitioners, and overall leadership in advancing the field. Nominations should include (1) a nomination letter describing the field of, and the impact of, the nominee, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) up to five letters of support. All nomination materials must be submitted in electronic (pdf) format.Submit nomination materials beforeJuly 1, 2006to either one of the Co-Chairs of the Awards Subcommittee.Professor Olivier A. BauchauCo-Chair MSND-TC AwardsSchool of Aerospace EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology270 Ferst Street, SST Building, Rm. 212Atlanta, GA 30332-0150Email: olivier.bauchau@ae.gatech.eduTel: (404) 894-0042Fax: (404) 894-2760Professor Noel C. PerkinsCo-Chair MSND-TC Awards SubcommitteeMechanical EngineeringUniversity of Michigan2350 Hayward St.Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125Email: ncp@umich.eduTel: (734) 936-0403Fax: (734) 615-6647