Motion Optimization of Mechanical Structures
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 4852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optimization; logistics; mining and hauling equipment; finite elements; steel structures
Interests: modelling and simulation in mechanical engineering; FEA/FEM; mining and mechanical equipment and machines; structures; vibrations; numeric analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Motion control is a key requirement in many fields, such as engineering, micromanufacturing, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Although great advances have been made in control engineering, it is still challenging to achieve the desired performance level in precision motion control systems. Substantial research reveals an increasing trend of applying optimization approaches in precision engineering to obtain the control system parameters. Trajectory optimization is often difficult as obstacles and complex dynamics must be considered. Movement generation is increasingly formalized as a large-scale optimization of the future outcome of actions. In high-dimensional manipulation platforms, this optimization is so computationally complex that traditional approaches have long focused primarily on solution feasibility rather than local optimality. Efforts to holistically understand the optimization problem and exploit the structure of the problem to increase computational efficiency begin to pay off. There are very fast constrained optimizers that use second-order information to enhance convergence and exploit the geometry of the problem much more efficiently than conventional planners.
This Special Issue is devoted to state-of-the-art research on reliability technologies and applications for mechanical equipment and their subsystems and components, such as robots, vehicles, machine tools, etc. We seek submissions with an original perspective and advanced thinking on the addressed themes. Research on theories, experiments, and engineering applications is welcome.
Dr. Zoltán Virág
Prof. Dr. Florin Dumitru Popescu
Dr. Andrei Andras
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optimization
- simulation
- path planning
- feedback control
- mechanism
- machine tools
- robotics
