Mechanical Element & New Material Application

Gravity Compensation Mechanism with a Non-circular Pulley and a Spring

References

  1. Gen Endo, Hiroya Yamada, Akira Yajima, Masaru Ogata, Shigeo Hirose, A Weight Compensation Mechanism with a Non-Circular Pulley and a Spring: Application to a Parallel Four-Bar Linkage Arm, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.3, No.2, pp.130-136 (2010)[DOI]
  2. Gen Endo, Hiroya Yamada, Akira Yajima, Masaru Ogata and Shigeo Hirose, A Passive Weight Compensation Mechanism with a Non-Circular Pulley and a Spring, Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp.3843-3848 (2010)[PDF]
  3. Gen Endo, Hiroya Yamada, Shigeo Hirose, Development of a Light Duty Arm with an Active-Fingertip Gripper for Handling Discoid Objects, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.2600-2605 (2010)[PDF]