The manufacturing lines of the sponsoring company utilize cam129]follower systems where complex motion is required. Insight into the suitability of servomotor mechanisms as replacements for cam129]follower systems was desired. To that end, design and manufacture of a Cam129]Servo Test Machine actuated by either cam-follower or servomechanism was undertaken by the project129fs participants. The machine design employed a timing belt speed reduction in its drive train, which had an unintended deleterious impact on system stiffness. A revised design was developed and analyzed in its stead. The project team concluded that a larger servomotor, directly mounted, can be a suitable replacement for a cam129]follower system at a cost that is several orders of magnitude greater.

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Creator

• Callahan, Toby Michael
• Rhodes, Matthew B
• Hunter, Patrick D
• Ranellone, Raymond

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-011411-102638

Advisor

• Norton, Robert L.
• Cobb, Eben C.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-01-14

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright