Kinematic Synthesis of Adjustable Mechanisms : Part 2, Function generators

Abstract

A dimensional synthesis of three types of planar six-link adjustable function generators is carried out in succession to the path generators in part 1. The relations between adjustable parameters and input-output displacement curves are classified, and four characters are suggested in order to deal with the relations quantitatively. Then the kinematic conditions satisfying each character above are obtained, and a systematic synthesis of adjustable mechanisms has become possible.