To investigate the effect of the gear transmission system on the dynamic responses of the metro vehicle driving system, a vertical–longitudinal dynamics, model which considers the frame-hung traction motor and gearbox, is established and is validated to be reliable by comparing the simulation results and field test results in both time domain and time–frequency domain in this paper. Compared to wheelset, the gear mesh force has a greater effect on the force state of traction motor and gearbox.

Under the condition of high temperature, high pressure and severe friction, the micro-texture hole or groove will be filled with chips quickly and lose its function. The texture with a larger aperture is made on the tool rake face, which is connected with the internal cooling hole so as to achieve the functions of cooling, lubricating, reducing friction, changing chip state, reducing cutting force, prolonging tool life and reducing production cost during rough machining.

China is one of the first countries that produced textiles in the world. It has designed and developed a variety of equipment to facilitate textile work. However, due to unclear descriptions in the records and illustrations, a variety of designs with different structures may have been produced. This paper briefly analyzes the structures of textile mechanisms and explores the degree of freedom of the mechanisms to find feasible designs in line with functional requirements.

To improve the stiffness performance of the parallel mechanism, this paper proposes a novel 3-DOF redundantly actuated 2RPU-2SPR parallel mechanism. What is more, the stiffness model of the parallel mechanism is deduced and the accuracy of the stiffness model is verified through finite-element analysis. Finally, the simulation experiment results demonstrate that the redundantly actuated parallel mechanism has better stiffness performance compared to a traditional 2RPU-SPR parallel mechanism.

The speed of autonomous vehicles will have a significant influence on the safety and comfort of driving. When the autonomous vehicle passes through the consecutive speed control humps, how to automatically select the most appropriate speed has become a practical research subject. The paper chooses the genetic algorithm to build a multi-objective optimization model and then designs and carries out the solution process of the multi-objective optimization problem for the vehicle.

This paper proposes a novel origami-based deployable mechanism, which can be deployed from the cuboid folded configuration to the cylindrical configuration. In comparison with the reported deployable mechanism composed of links, the hinge arrangement of the proposed mechanism makes it easier to achieve a higher stiffness. It is applied to the design of a parabolic cylindrical deployable antenna, and a scaled prototype of the antenna is constructed to verify the feasibility of the design.

This paper proposes a novel EMG-based motion compensation controller in active training control to improve patients’ active participation. After proposing an upper limb rehabilitation robot and doing the path plan, the EMG compensation experiments and the active training control experiment are done to prove that the method can control the robot in providing auxiliary force according to patients’ motion intents. The robot can guide the patients in implementing reference tasks in active training.

A novel hollow-ring permanent magnet brake integrated in robot joints is proposed, which allows the brake to require much less axial space and provides more than 1.5 times braking torque for the same volume as the conventional electromagnetic-spring friction brake. A coupled dynamics model of the proposed brake is developed from machine-electric-magnetic aspects. The 3D model of the brake is simulated through finite-element software. The theoretical models are verified through experiments.

To lower the frequency of suspending and calibrating a robot manipulator, an innovative device for enlarging the allowed position error is proposed in this study. It is a purely mechanical device without any electrical sensors. A trigger mechanism with a spring is used to replace a touch sensor and an actuator, and a six-bar linkage delivers the bolt to the hole that the trigger mechanism detected for it to be screwed in. The functions of the new device are verified through prototype testing.

A terminal sliding mode controller is used to design the controller, and a radial basis function neural network method is used for adaptive approximation of system parameters. In order to eliminate chattering, a fuzzy algorithm is designed for fuzzy control of control gain. The simulation verified that the controller designed in this paper can effectively carry out trajectory tracking and the lateral control of electric vehicles and eliminate chattering to a certain extent.

In order to improve the structural performance of the out-of-pipe pipe-climbing robot, the out-of-pipe pipe-climbing robot is optimized. The structure and size of the robot was optimized. Static and modal analyses were then performed on key robot components and ANSYS was used for topology optimization. It was found the weight of the optimized frame and clamping arm were respectively reduced by 24 % and 20 %, and the maximum stress was respectively reduced by 46 % and 20 %.