Design and Manufacture of Advanced Machines, Volume II

A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to compile papers that report on recent advances and challenges in addressing problems and designing new solutions for industry digitalization, a process aligned with the context of Industry 4.0. Original contributions that present successful solutions to solve real problems in industry are welcome. We believe that this Special Issue will be useful and informative to both researchers and practitioners. In addition, we hope to deliver readers promising new ideas and directions for future developments in the field of industry digitalization. This Special Issue will present the contemporary innovations and engineering achievements of senior scientists and industrial practitioners in these areas.

This Special Issue represents a continuation of our previous Special Issue of “Design and Manufacture of Advanced Machines”. Suitable topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Additive manufacturing and new hybrid processes;
  • Advanced mechatronics devices;
  • Automation and Robotics;
  • Case studies and testbeds on Smart Manufacturing;
  • Cyber physical systems;
  • Cybersecurity;
  • Developments in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems;
  • Industrial communication protocols;
  • Mechatronics sensing and control;
  • Modelling and simulation for Smart Manufacturing;
  • Smart actuators and materials;
  • Smart material handling and transportation vehicles;
  • Sustainable materials, products and processes;
  • IoT and IIoT;
  • 5G in Industry;
  • Big Data and Machine Learning;
  • Industrial Vision Systems;
  • Vision Guided Robotics;
  • NFC, RFID, BLE and other wireless technology applications;
  • Asset tagging and indoor geolocation

Prof. Dr. Pedro M. B. Torres
Prof. Dr. Volker Lohweg
Dr. Géza Husi
Dr. Eduardo André Perondi
Dr. Katarzyna Antosz
Dr. Oleg Zabolotnyi
Prof. Dr. Jose Machado
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Article
Expansion of MK Circle Theory for Dyads and Triads
by Sean Mather and Arthur Erdman
Machines 2023, 11(8), 841; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11080841 - 18 Aug 2023
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The MK circles represent a kinematic synthesis tool for the dimensional synthesis of planar dyads. The tool is uniquely useful in its ability to both find specific dyad solutions and help the designer visualize numerous potential dyad pivot locations in the solution space. [...] Read more.
The MK circles represent a kinematic synthesis tool for the dimensional synthesis of planar dyads. The tool is uniquely useful in its ability to both find specific dyad solutions and help the designer visualize numerous potential dyad pivot locations in the solution space. Here, the existing understanding of MK circles is summarized for three and four specified motion positions and extended for additional positions. Then the technique is expanded to show its application to MKT circles for triad synthesis, including solution space visualization, ground pivot specification, and multi-loop synthesis of complex mechanisms. These methods are illustrated by a unifying example that provides a sample procedure for applying the MK/MKT circles, and implements each of the aforementioned techniques. The interchangeability of loop-based synthesis approaches is demonstrated by comparing the new methodology to the compatibility linkages technique. Full article
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