Document Type

Research Paper

Publication Date

9-1-2010

Abstract

Drives account in many cases up to one third of the costs of material handling equipment. This fact justifies a closer look to important drive and motion issues. Typical design criteria for drives are energy and power consumption, wear, heat and noise generation. Engineering design activities start with the generation of the system configuration, that is to make appropriate topological decisions where to locate the drives in the equipment structure. These decisions define to a great extent the functional quality of the mechanical structure and the distribution of forces in the power train. For early design stages an elasto-kinetic model is developed, which is later enhanced by a more detailed simulation model. Another important issue is the definition of high quality motion profiles defined by selected velocity-time relationships.

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Paper 25

Publication Title

Progress in Material Handling Research: 2010

ISBN

9781882780167

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