{"title":"Research on collaborative multi-UAV localization method based on combination navigation information","authors":"Zhengyang Cao, Gang Chen","doi":"10.1177/09544062241263747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241263747","url":null,"abstract":"In challenging environments, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems often encounter unstable satellite signals and communication link interference. This paper proposes an integrated navigation method that integrates inertial navigation system (INS), global navigation satellite system (GNSS), and visual navigation system (VNS). Utilizing data from onboard sensors, this method merges relative navigation information from feature tracking of multiple UAVs with each UAV’s absolute navigation data. It includes specially designed transmission rules to reduce data exchange between UAVs. Each UAV uses an adaptive unscented Kalman filter (AUKF) method, which is enhanced into a collaborative AUKF (C-AUKF) using a message passing-based approach. Experiments in a simulated mission scenario revealed that the C-AUKF, in comparison to using extended Kalman filter (EKF), significantly improved flight test performance across the entire testing area, with a cumulative deviation of only 10.22 m, about 0.85% of the total flight distance. These results demonstrate that the proposed method not only meets accuracy requirements for position and velocity in integrated navigation but also significantly enhances multi-UAV navigation precision, particularly in scenarios with global positioning system (GPS) interference.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of increasing eccentricity and leakage on the performance of an axial piston pump","authors":"Anurag Pathak, Neeraj Sonkar, Rishabh Gupta, Ankur Miglani, Pavan Kumar Kankar","doi":"10.1177/09544062241262898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241262898","url":null,"abstract":"An Axial Piston Pump (APPs), suitable for high pressure and high efficiency, is used as the source of fluid power in the hydraulic system. Due to the compact design and relative motion between various parts, it causes wear in parts thus leakage introduce between various moving parts which work under tight tolerance. Multiple faults in an axial piston pump occur simultaneously after a long time of operation due to harsh working conditions and heavy loads. Faults in the pump deteriorate the pump’s performance and limit the operating range of the pump. Estimation must account for random and uncertain characteristics, and accurate wear prediction is difficult. Effective diagnosis improves pump dependability and performance. An approach based on simulation is utilized to model the impact of faults like leakage through eccentricity in piston-cylinder arrangement with increasing severity of clearance between piston-cylinder arrangement and its effect on the pump performance. As the clearance with different eccentricity between the piston and cylinder arrangement increases, outlet pressure and discharge of the pump remains unaffected up to a critical value of severity. After further increasing severity, outlet pressure and discharge reduce monotonically and saturate at a single value in extremely severe conditions. With increasing the severity of eccentricity in the piston-cylinder arrangement and increasing the severity of clearance, a critical threshold value shifts to a lower magnitude.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel proposed approach for optimal design of a 2-Dof manipulator arm","authors":"Amani Hamel, Moussa Haddad, Lamine Rebhi, Samir Khatir","doi":"10.1177/09544062241261595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241261595","url":null,"abstract":"The manipulator arm design is generally related to a search for a compromise between conflicting requirements. Finding this compromise requires the resolution of a bi-level optimization problem (the respect of some specific constraints involves solving other optimization sub-problems). In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the optimal dimensioning of a two-degrees-of-freedom manipulator arm, where the objective function is defined by the minimization of the structure’s overall mass. The constraints that are taken into consideration can be divided into three categories: geometrical (bounds on design variables, admissible limit of the static deflection at the endpoint of the effector), kinematic (bounds on joint velocities and the accelerations of the actuators), and dynamic (admissible limit of the dynamic deflection at the endpoint of the effector). To achieve the penalizing dynamic configurations in terms of actuator torques and dynamic deflection, a quasi-static deformation model and a recurrent dynamic model were used. The static and dynamic deflection constraints are treated as optimization sub-problems, where their outcomes are integrated, at each iteration, into the global optimization process. The validation of the developed quasi-static deformation model as well as the proposed optimal dimensioning approach is conducted by comparing results with Ansys software simulations. Notably, The proposed approach demonstrates a significantly faster computation time compared to the Ansys software (06 s for the proposed approach vs 21 h for Ansys). Even though Ansys software performs optimal dimensioning for an imposed trajectory.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical characterization and study on morphological properties: Natural and agro waste utilization of reinforced polyester hybrid composites","authors":"V Vinoth, S Sathiyamurthy, N Ananthi, S Jayabal","doi":"10.1177/09544062241258077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241258077","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-conscious products are currently garnering significant attention due to their abundant availability and versatile applications in various engineering contexts. The distinctive properties of natural fibers make them readily substitutable for synthetic fibers. A substantial one million tonnes of fiber waste, primarily composed of paddy straw fiber, is generated globally. The research emphasis revolves around the adoption of the Waste to Wealth technique, a highly efficient process aimed at repurposing waste materials. This approach plays a pivotal role in curbing air pollution, specifically by preventing the incineration of the residual portion of paddy straw fiber on agricultural lands. The study involves the collection of paddy straw fiber from agricultural fields, with subsequent extraction facilitated by an extracting machine. Employing a chemical treatment process enhances the adhesion properties between the fiber and matrix. Consequently, comprehensive fiber tests, including the single fiber test, fiber tenacity, and fiber fineness, were meticulously examined for both treated and untreated fibers. The reinforcements and matrix were taken by the weight percentage of 50:50 with different fiber length (25, 50, 75, 100 mm) using the compression moulding machine with 300 mm × 300 mm × 3 mm dimensions. After making the laminates, the samples were cut as per the ASTM standard. The mechanical and morphological behavior of the hybrid fiber-reinforced polyester composites were evaluated, and the water absorption property in the concerned laminates was studied.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal design of electro-thermo-mechanical microactuators considering minimum length scale constraints","authors":"Jinqing Zhan, Jiakun Yan, Benliang Zhu, Min Liu","doi":"10.1177/09544062241263446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241263446","url":null,"abstract":"To ensure the manufacturability of compliant mechanisms, this paper presents a new approach for optimal design of electro-thermo-mechanical microactuators by employing minimum length scale constraints. A sequential coupling method is adopted to carry out finite element analysis for electric-thermal-mechanical coupling multiphysics. The inflection point fields of the solid and void phases are identified by structural indicator functions. The minimum length scales of the solid and void phases are adopted as constraints. The optimization objective is designed to maximize the output displacements of electro-thermo-mechanical microactuators. The validity of the proposed optimal design method is demonstrated through several numerical examples. In the optimal designs obtained by the proposed method, the minimum length scales of the two phases can be properly controlled. The electro-thermo-mechanical microactuator’s output displacements decrease when the allowable value of the minimum length scale is increased. The effects of different mesh discretizations and output spring stiffnesses on the optimized designs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hybrid dynamic adversarial domain adaptation network with multi-channel attention mechanism for rotating machinery unsupervised fault diagnosis under varying operating conditions","authors":"Hangbo Duan, Zongyan Cai, Yuanbo Xu","doi":"10.1177/09544062241266349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241266349","url":null,"abstract":"Data-driven intelligent fault diagnosis methods have been extensively researched and applied in rotating machinery. In practical application scenarios, factors such as variable operating conditions and scarcity of labeled samples in rotating machinery hinder the engineering application and promotion of diagnostic models. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an unsupervised domain adaptation network called the Multi-scale Hybrid Domain Adaptation with Attention (MHDAA). Firstly, a multi-scale convolutional module was developed to extract fault features at different scales. Secondly, a multi-channel attention mechanism was proposed to enable the convolution layers of different convolution kernels fully extract feature information. Finally, a hybrid domain adaptation was constructed to dynamically extract invariant features from both the source and target domains. The method was evaluated in multiple transfer scenarios of planetary gearboxes and bearings. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively utilize fault features with high correlation from multiple source domains to complete fault diagnosis with unknown data labels in the target domain. Moreover, the proposed method exhibits superior diagnostic performance.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhuoxiang Chen, Qing Zhang, Jianqun Zhang, Xianrong Qin, Yuantao Sun
{"title":"A knowledge-based fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings without fault sample training","authors":"Zhuoxiang Chen, Qing Zhang, Jianqun Zhang, Xianrong Qin, Yuantao Sun","doi":"10.1177/09544062241264267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241264267","url":null,"abstract":"Rolling bearings are indispensable components of many engineering machinery, especially rotating machinery. If rolling bearing faults are not diagnosed promptly, it may cause huge economic losses. Bearing fault diagnosis can avoid catastrophic accidents, ensure the reliability of equipment operation, and reduce maintenance costs. Existing intelligent bearing fault diagnosis methods have fast diagnosis speeds and excellent fault recognition capabilities, which is not feasible for most important mechanical devices because of the difficulty in obtaining fault samples for training. To tackle this problem, a two-stage bearing fault diagnosis method without fault sample training based on fault feature knowledge is proposed. In the first stage, a fault detection vector is constructed based on signal statistical indicators. The Mahalanobis distance of the feature vector between online signals and historical normal signals serves for anomaly detection. In the second stage, based on the bearing fault knowledge, envelope spectrum fault indicators are proposed to form diagnosis vectors. By calculating the similarity between the diagnosis vector and the present fault label, the probability of different fault types will be obtained. Three experimental analyses show that the method is effective in detecting early faults and achieves high fault identification accuracy. The above results advantageously prove that the method can be used for fault diagnosis without fault sample training, and has the possibility of practical application.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingfeng Zhang, Chuntian Xu, Lin Li, Zihuimin Wang, Xu Zong
{"title":"Optimization of PID controller for stepper motor speed control system based on improved sparrow search algorithm","authors":"Mingfeng Zhang, Chuntian Xu, Lin Li, Zihuimin Wang, Xu Zong","doi":"10.1177/09544062241261268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241261268","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the control accuracy of the stepper motor, a PID controller based on an improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA-PID) is designed to improve the response speed as well as the robustness of the closed-loop speed control of the stepper motor by optimizing the position update formula and the step size control parameters based on the sparrow search algorithm. ISSA-PID is applied to the stepper motor speed control system in Matlab and tested by Ramp-up Load and applying perturbation simulation respectively. By comparing with traditional PID, Differential Evolution algorithm PID controller, Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm PID controller, and Ant Lion Optimization algorithm PID controller, the results show that ISSA-PID not only improves the convergence speed and accuracy but also performs better in terms of stability. Finally, the experimental platform of the stepper motor speed control system is built to experimentally verify the performance of the ISSA-PID controller, and the experimental results show that ISSA-PID has stronger robustness and faster response speed compared with the remaining four controllers.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clearance control of mechanism with sliding mode controller","authors":"Bagher Jamshidi, Morteza Dardel, Hamid Reza Mohammadi Daniali","doi":"10.1177/09544062241266336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241266336","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the design, manufacturing, and assembly processes, joint clearance inevitably occurs in mechanisms. To reduce the undesirable effects of this phenomenon, in this work a practical control method to decrease these effects is presented. This control method ensures permanent joint contact and follows the desired path based on the actuators in the system. As a result, because the controller seeks to achieve two control demands using one actuator, these mechanisms are known as an under-actuated system. For this purpose, an improved second-order sliding-mode controller (IS-SMC) is proposed. This choice is based on its robustness and its ability to meet control demands in a finite time, as well as its high accuracy for sub-excitation systems. In this research, the control method is applied to the crank-slider and the four-bar mechanisms. For this purpose, at first, the equations of these mechanisms have been expressed in an ideal form, and then the nonlinear equations have been extracted with the imperfect joint. The Lankarani-Nikravesh and the Ambrosio models have been used for modeling the clearance and friction force in the joint, respectively. In addition, verification of controller is implemented in Adams software.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141783019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Han, Bin Xiong, Jinyue Liu, Dong Yang, Tiejun Li
{"title":"Research on time-energy optimal trajectory planning of articulated heavy-duty robot","authors":"Ming Han, Bin Xiong, Jinyue Liu, Dong Yang, Tiejun Li","doi":"10.1177/09544062241266149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062241266149","url":null,"abstract":"Articulated heavy-duty robots are more and more widely used in the construction environment. Aiming at the problems of low working efficiency and high energy consumption of this kind of robot, a multi-objective adaptive trajectory planning method combining path optimization and trajectory optimization is proposed to improve the working efficiency of the robot and reduce energy consumption. Firstly, based on kinematics and dynamic analysis considering friction, the energy consumption model of robot trajectory is constructed. Then, according to the posture of the key points in the known workspace, the optimal path points in the joint space are obtained by a path point solution method considering the joint load characteristics. On this basis, a multi-objective model considering running time and energy consumption is established to plan the interpolation trajectory of the joint space of the quintic B-spline curve. Finally, constrained by the velocity, acceleration and torque of the joint of the manipulator, the optimal solution is obtained by using the elite non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II), and the optimal weight factor is selected by a multi-objective adaptive optimization method to obtain the optimal position-time series. The experimental results show that compared with the quintic polynomial trajectory optimization method, the energy consumption of the proposed method is reduced by 10.90% under the same working efficiency. The research results of this paper provide a new optimization idea for other target trajectory planning.","PeriodicalId":20558,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}