PATH GENERATION OF MOVING PIVOT-ADJUSTABLE GEARED FIVE-BAR MECHANISM

摘要

The research presents a method for designing geared five-bar mechanism to approximate two or three groups of prescribed rigid-body parameters. Using this presented method, adjustable geared five-bar path generators are synthesized to approximate two or three series of prescribed path points using the same mechanism hardware. The path generation method accommodates moving pivot adjustable planar five-bar mechanisms with gears joining the grounded links. In this work, a moving pivot adjustment with constant link lengths is considered to demo the examples.