Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    Computer-Aided Sketching of Epicyclic-Type Automatic Transmission Gear Trains
    (1995) Chatterjee, Goutam; Tsai, Lung-Wen; ISR
    The enumeration of epicyclic gear mechanisms in the form of graphs gives rise to the need of a methodology for reverse transformation, that is, for constructing the mechanisms from graphs. This paper addresses the issue by discretizing an epicyclic gear mechanism into Fundamental Geared Entities. Further, these geared entities are shown to be a conglomeration of four primitives; namely, the carrier, sun, ring, and the planet gear. An algorithm is formulated to create the entities from a graph by using these primitives. The entities are then connected to form a mechanism.
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    Enumeration of Epicyclic-Type Automatic Transmission Gear Trains
    (1995) Chatterjee, Goutam; Tsai, Lung-Wen; ISR
    An automotive transmission maintains a proper equilibrium between the power and torque produced by the engine and those demanded by the drive wheels. Most automatic transmissions employ some kind of epicyclic gear mechanisms to achieve the above purpose. The first step in the design process of such a mechanism involves finding a configuration that provides a set of desired speed ratios, and meets other dynamic and kinematic requirements. In this work, the kinematic structural characteristics of epicyclic gear mechanisms have been identified, and a methodology is formulated to systematically enumerate all possible configurations of such mechanisms. This is achieved by defining a canonical graph to represent the mechanisms. Graphs of mechanisms with up to 10 links have been generated using this methodology.
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    Enumeration and Automatic Sketching of Epicyclic-Type Automatic Transmission Gear Trains
    (1993) Chatterjee, Goutam; Tsai, Lung-Wen; ISR
    The automotive transmission maintains a proper equilibrium between the power and torque produced by the engine and those demanded by the drive wheels. Most automatic transmissions employ some kind of epicyclic gear mechanisms to achieve the above purpose. The first step in the design process of such a mechanism involves finding the configuration that provides the correct speed ratios, and meets other dynamic and kinematic requirements. In this work, the kinematic structural characteristics of epicyclic gear mechanisms have been identified, and a methodology is formulated to systematically enumerate all possible configurations of such mechanisms. This is achieved through representation of the mechanisms by graphs and their storage in the computer as vertex-to-vertex adjacency matrices. Some of the structural characteristics of the mechanisms that arise out of its functional requirements are taken into account during the enumeration process. This helps limit the number of graphs at any stage of the enumeration procedure. Graphs of mechanisms with up to nine links have been generated using this methodology.

    The representation of mechanisms by graphs precipitates the need of a methodology for reverse transformation, that is, for constructing the mechanisms from graphs. To accomplish this, a mechanism is discretized into Fundamental Geared Entities. Further, these geared entities are shown to be a conglomeration of five primitives; namely, carrier, sun, ring, the single planet, and the multiple planet gears. An algorithm is formulated to create these entities from the graph representation by using the primitives. These entities are then connected together to form the mechanism.