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A cohesive modeling technique for theoretical and experimental estimation of damping in serial robots with rigid and flexible links

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Dynamic model incorporating damping characteristics, namely joint damping and structural damping in flexible links, of the serial robots with rigid and flexible links is presented. A novel procedure, based on the unified approach of theoretical formulation and analysis of experimental data, is proposed for the estimation of damping coefficients. First, the dynamic model of a robotic system with rigid and flexible links is presented. Next, the modifications in the dynamic model due to the considerations of damping characteristics of joints and structural damping characteristics of the flexible links are presented. A systematic methodology based on analysis of data obtained from experiments is presented for estimation and determination of damping coefficients of rigid-flexible links. The determination of joint damping coefficients, is based on the logarithmic decay of the amplitude of the oscillations of robotic links, while the structural damping coefficients are estimated mainly using the modal analysis and the method of evolving spectra. The method of evolving spectra, based on the Fast Fourier Transform of the decay of the amplitude in structural vibrations of the robot links in progressive windows is used to estimate the structural damping ratios while the critical structural coefficients are determined using the modal analysis. The methodology is illustrated through a series of simple experiments on simple robotic systems. The experimental results are then compared with the simulation results incorporating the damping coefficients determined using the proposed procedure. The comparisons leads to the validation of the proposed dynamic modeling technique, modeling of the damping characteristics, and the method proposed for estimation of damping coefficients for rigid-flexible link robotic systems.

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    Ashish Mohan

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The work reported in this paper was carried out in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India.

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Mohan, A., Singh, S.P. & Saha, S.K. A cohesive modeling technique for theoretical and experimental estimation of damping in serial robots with rigid and flexible links. Multibody Syst Dyn 23, 333–360 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-010-9188-9

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