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Design of band-style lock-unlock mechanism for space arm

  • School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A band-style lock-unlock mechanism for space-arms was proposed to assure locking of space-arms reliably. To light down mass of the whole mechanism, a centralized lock-unlock scheme was employed here. Several slider-crank mechanisms were driven by single crankshaft to accomplish the unlocking operation. Spiral spring was used to draw the clamp-band back due to its characteristics of storing much more energy in limited space. To assure normal operation of this lock-unlock mechanism, the kinematics and dynamics analysis of this crank-slider mechanism was presented. As the space arm will experience sever launching condition, the modal analysis of brackets, which are pivotal components in this mechanism, were accomplished with ANSYS. The simulative experimental results obtained on ground reveals that this lock-unlock mechanism can implement the objectives mentioned above.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007
Pages3537-3542
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007 - Harbin, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20078 Aug 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period5/08/078/08/07

Keywords

  • Band-style
  • Crank-slider mechanism
  • Dynamics analysis
  • Lock-unlock mechanism

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