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To improve the product quality of rotate vector (RV) reducer at a low cost, a kind of vibration technology is introduced to investigate the quality assurance of RV. It includes a torsional vibration test to assess the vibration performance of the reducer and vibration analysis to recognize the manufacturing defects in the reducer’s mechanical components. The mechanical components with manufacturing defects are diagnosed through the signal processing on torsional vibration and defect characteristics recognition, and they are removed from the RV reducer by a reassembling process. As a result, the dynamic behavior of the reducer is evidently improved, the torsional vibration of the reducer is kept within a low level, and the feedback control is realized for product quality during the production process. Therefore, the presented vibration technology is highly recommended to the manufacture quality assurance of RV reducers applied in an industrial robot.
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Jingjun Gu is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai University. His research area is (1) dynamic of RV reducer and harmonic driver; (2) manufacturing engineering of RV reducer.
Dishan Huang received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1992. He teaches a course on vibration and mechanical design, and does research work as a Professor at Shanghai University. His current research focuses on vibration, signal processing, and fault diagnosis.
Jing Tan received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2002. She teaches a course on mechanical design as an instructor at Shanghai University. Her current research focuses on the design of RV reducer.
Jinlei Liu is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai University, and he researches vibration of RV reducer.
Song Wang is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai University, and he researches vibration of RV reducer.
Ming Li received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai University, P. R. China, in 1997. Now he researches geometric precision design, verification and measurement at Shanghai University as a Professor.
Lin Xiao received the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University, Shanghai University, China, in 2016. She works at Shanghai Tian An bearing Co., Ltd. as an engineer. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of bearings.
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Gu, J., Huang, D., Tan, J. et al. Manufacturing quality assurance for a rotate vector reducer with vibration technology. J Mech Sci Technol 33, 1995–2001 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-019-0401-3
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