Questions tagged [linear-motion]
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Driving an air cylinder with ignited hydrogen/oxygen gas mixture from fuel cell?
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I need to build a linear actuator that has a very fast actuating speed but fits in a very small space.
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Electric gearmotors, c02, and air pressure, are all ideas that come to ...
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Simple mechanism to convert linear motion into 180 degrees rotation
I want a simple mechanism to rotate something 180 degrees when another thing moves linearly past/through it. The below is what I have, but it can only work with an offset, so the movement is never ...
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How to achieve sliding motion like this between two blocks?
I want to make a construction of two boxes, that by default would be stacked one on top of the other, but linked in a way that would allow the top box to slide off and then move down so that they are ...
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Understanding the importance of 'pitch': For ball screws and timing belts
I searched here and even asked at McMaster-Carr, but even they couldn't provide an answer for me--
So, say you have either a ball-screw, or a timing belt-- Of course, in either case, having the right ...
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Determining the balancing force for a system of unequal masses for given scenario (angular-momentum, moment-of-inertia, thought-experiment)
Have already asked this on physics-site but has been closed.
As such trying here!
This question is basically a thought experiment.
Let's say there are two pulley's P1 and P2 having equal radius R and ...
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Looking for a mount with 3D play to it
I'm building a lift bed in a van. The basic idea is that each corner of the bed is mounted on a linear track actuator, bed goes up, bed goes down.
I want to be able to control each actuator ...
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How do you make custom springs and where could you buy them?
A friend and I are working on a combat robot that uses a special drive. This drive requires a spring with a large wire diameter (over 3mm), a large outer diameter (40-70mm), and a large pitch (60-90mm)...
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Looking for a linear actuator that can carry a transverse load? Does such a product exist?
I am looking for a product that works like a linear actuator where you can control how far it extends but it can also hold a transverse load at the furthest point of extension.
What I am looking for ...
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How do linear guides work?
I am new to the office and I wanted to ask about linear guides like shown in the picture:
(source: https://www.nskeurope.de/de/linear-motion-control/products/linear-guides.html)
Are the carriages able ...
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Differential Drive Kinematic Constraint Determination
I'm working through a paper to better understand Differential Drive Mobile robots and I'm a bit stuck(fairly early in the paper) on how one of the constraints is derived.
The paper is here, https://...
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To design the system of a rectangular small shaft moving in and out in a completely mechanical way without remote control
In my setup , I have designed a system in which a body will rotate and execute rectilinear motion down the screw along its thread . upon reaching the bottom most point I want to make a system in which ...
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Design of a linear actuator that is only 5 mm wide
I have to design a linear actuator with a maximum movement of 3 cm back and forth and a maximum force of 5 N. The only constraint I have is that it can only be 5 mm wide. There's no real constraint ...
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Spring and damper in series, equation of motion
For the motion in fig 4.1 (a), please check the description of this system in the images above, everything should be there. I get it, assuming the positive direction is downward, the spring tension is ...
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how are larger leadscrews (14mm diameter and up) fixed in place?
So looking at 12mm lead screws and below, it seems like a common method for fixing them in place is to use pillow blocks. The pillow block has set screws which clamp onto the lead screw, and you're ...
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I'm trying to understand an equation from a motor simulation $\dot w_i (u_ i ,w_i,l _i , \dot l _ i )$
I have a simulated motor and I'm not understanding the math to control it.
This is the equation for the force of the motor, also called an 'actuator'.
$\dot w_i (u_ i ,w_i,l _i , \dot l _ i )$
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