Kronecker product and a new matrix form of Lagrangian equations with multipliers for constrained multibody systems

The automatic derivation of motion equations is an important problem of multibody system dynamics. Firstly, an overview of the matrix calculus related to Kronecker product of two matrices is presented. A new matrix form of Lagrangian equations with multipliers for constrained multibody systems is then developed to demonstrate the usefulness of Kronecker product of two matrices in the study of dynamics of multibody systems. Finally, the equations of motion of mechanisms are derived using the proposed matrix form of Lagrangian equations as application examples.     

Чаплыгин方程的研究进展

本文给出非完整力学系统方程的研究进展,包括方程形式的推广,方程的代数表示与几何表示,方程的积分理论,动力学逆问题,运动稳定性等方面的近年研究成果,并指出未来研究的几个方向．      

带约束多体系统动力学方程的隐式算法

研究了带约束多体系统隐式算法,用子矩阵的形式推导出了多体系统正则方程的Ｊａｃｏｂｉ矩阵,它适用于多种隐式算法并给出了隐式Ｒｕｎｇｅ－Ｋｕｔｔａ算法,最后用一算例表明了隐式算法的计算效率和精度明显优于算法。     

多体动力学超定运动方程广义-α求解新算法

完整约束多体系统第一类Lagrange方程建模得到的运动方程是指标-3形式的微分-代数方程(differental-algebraic equations,DAEs).如果同时考虑速度约束,将得到超定运动方程,该方程是指标-2的超定微分-代数方程(over-determined differential-algebraic equations,ODAEs).基于结构动力学中常用的广义-α方法,将其拓展,求解包含速度约束的超定运动方程,相对于其他求解指标-2 ODAEs的算法,新的算法没有增加离散得到的非线性方程组方程的数目.通过数值实验验证算法,并说明其求解ODAEs不存在精度降阶的现象,仍然具有二阶精度,同时算法的数值耗散也是可以控制的.最后新方法与其他求解多体系统ODAEs形式运动方程算法的CPU时间进行了比较分析.     

Impact dynamics of multibody systems with frictional contact using joint coordinates and canonical equations of motion

This paper presents a methodology in computational dynamics for the analysis of mechanical systems that undergo intermittent motion. A canonical form of the equations of motion is derived with a minimal set of coordinates. These equations are used in a procedure for balancing the momenta of the system over the period of impact, calculating the jump in the body momentum, velocity discontinuities and rebounds. The effect of dry friction is discussed and a contact law is proposed. The present formulation is extended to open and closed-loop mechanical systems where the jumps in the constraints' momenta are also solved. The application of this methodology is illustrated with the study of impact of open-loop and closed-loop examples.     

具有奇异位置的多体系统动力学方程的隐式算法

本文研究了在运动过程中具有奇异位置的多体系统动力学方程的隐式算法，给出了隐式算法所用的Ｊａｃｏｂｉ矩阵，并建立了该矩阵中各子矩阵间的计算关系，提高了计算效率，计算结果表明隐式算法的计算速度和精度明显优于显式算法。     

Unilateral problems of dynamics

Summary Contact processes may be described by local discretizations, by rigid representation or by mixed methods incorporating both ideas. A rigid body approach is proposed for the dynamics of mechanical systems, achieving good results also for multiple-contact problems. Contacts in multibody systems are mainly considered, with the corresponding contact constraints varying with time, thus generating structure-variant systems. The equations of motion for dynamical systems with such unilateral behavior are discussed, solution methods and applications are presented. Received 3 March 1999; accepted for publication 5 May 1999     

A geometric solution to the general single contact frictionless problem by combining concepts of analytical dynamics and b-calculus

This study presents a systematic approach, leading to a new set of equations of motion for a class of mechanical systems subject to a single frictionless contact constraint. To achieve this goal, some fundamental concepts of b-geometry are utilized and adapted to the general framework of Analytical Dynamics. These concepts refer to the theory of manifolds with boundary and provide a suitable and strong theoretical foundation. First, the boundary is defined within the original configuration manifold of the system by the equality in the unilateral constraint. Then, an appropriate vector bundle is considered, involving only smooth vector fields, even at the boundary. After determining the essential geometric properties (i.e., the metric and the connection) near the boundary, Newton’s law of motion is applied. In this way, the equations of motion during the contact phase are derived as a system of ordinary differential equations. These equations possess a special form inside a thin boundary layer. In particular, the essential dynamics of the systems examined is found to be governed by a single second order ordinary differential equation, which is investigated fully. Moreover, a critical comparison of the present formulation with the classical formulations applied to systems with a frictionless contact is performed. Finally, the effect of the dominant parameters on the dynamics during the contact phase and the steps for the application process to mechanical systems are illustrated by two selected examples, referring to contact of a particle and a rigid body with a plane.     

How to compute invariant manifolds and their reduced dynamics in high-dimensional finite element models

Invariant manifolds are important constructs for the quantitative and qualitative understanding of nonlinear phenomena in dynamical systems. In nonlinear damped mechanical systems, for instance, spectral submanifolds have emerged as useful tools for the computation of forced response curves, backbone curves, detached resonance curves (isolas) via exact reduced-order models. For conservative nonlinear mechanical systems, Lyapunov subcenter manifolds and their reduced dynamics provide a way to identify nonlinear amplitude–frequency relationships in the form of conservative backbone curves. Despite these powerful predictions offered by invariant manifolds, their use has largely been limited to low-dimensional academic examples. This is because several challenges render their computation unfeasible for realistic engineering structures described by finite element models. In this work, we address these computational challenges and develop methods for computing invariant manifolds and their reduced dynamics in very high-dimensional nonlinear systems arising from spatial discretization of the governing partial differential equations. We illustrate our computational algorithms on finite element models of mechanical structures that range from a simple beam containing tens of degrees of freedom to an aircraft wing containing more than a hundred–thousand degrees of freedom.

     

Control structure interaction in the nonlinear analysis of flexible mechanical systems

The effect of the control structure interaction on the feedforward control law as well as the dynamics of flexible mechanical systems is examined in this investigation. An inverse dynamics procedure is developed for the analysis of the dynamic motion of interconnected rigid and flexible bodies. This method is used to examine the effect of the elastic deformation on the driving forces in flexible mechanical systems. The driving forces are expressed in terms of the specified motion trajectories and the deformations of the elastic members. The system equations of motion are formulated using Lagrange's equation. A finite element discretization of the flexible bodies is used to define the deformation degrees of freedom. The algebraic constraint equations that describe the motion trajectories and joint constraints between adjacent bodies are adjoined to the system differential equations of motion using the vector of Lagrange multipliers. A unique displacement field is then identified by imposing an appropriate set of reference conditions. The effect of the nonlinear centrifugal and Coriolis forces that depend on the body displacements and velocities are taken into consideration. A direct numerical integration method coupled with a Newton-Raphson algorithm is used to solve the resulting nonlinear differential and algebraic equations of motion. The formulation obtained for the flexible mechanical system is compared with the rigid body dynamic formulation. The effect of the sampling time, number of vibration modes, the viscous damping, and the selection of the constrained modes are examined. The results presented in this numerical study demonstrate that the use of the driving forees obtained using the rigid body analysis can lead to a significant error when these forces are used as the feedforward control law for the flexible mechanical system. The analysis presented in this investigation differs significantly from previously published work in many ways. It includes the effect of the structural flexibility on the centrifugal and Coriolis forces, it accounts for all inertia nonlinearities resulting from the coupling between the rigid body and elastic displacements, it uses a precise definition of the equipollent systems of forces in flexible body dynamics, it demonstrates the use of general purpose multibody computer codes in the feedforward control of flexible mechanical systems, and it demonstrates numerically the effect of the selected set of constrained modes on the feedforward control law.     

Dynamics equations of a mobile robot provided with caster wheel

Kinematics and dynamics of a mobile robot, consisting of a platform, two conventional wheels and a crank that controls the motion of a free rolling caster wheel, are analyzed in the paper. Based on several matrix relations of connectivity, the characteristic velocities and accelerations of this non-holonomic mechanical system are derived. Using the principle of virtual work, expressions and graphs for the torques and the powers of the two driving wheels are established. It has been verified the results in the framework of the second-order Lagrange equations with their multipliers. The study of the dynamics problems of the wheeled mobile robots is done mainly to solve successfully the control of the motion of such systems.     

Numerical Methods for Constrained Equations of Motion in Mechanical System Dynamics

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ABSTRACT A new class of numerical methods for solving equations of motion of constrained mechanical systems is presented, the framework of which is based on manifold theoretic methods. Rewriting the system of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) that describe constrained motion is ordinary differentia] equations (ODEs) on a constraint manifold, the theoretical framework for solving equations of motion is constructed, using a local     

有多余坐标完整系统的自由运动

对于完整力学系统,若选取的参数不是完全独立的,则称为有多余坐标的完整系统. 由于完整力学系统的第二类Lagrange 方程中没有约束力,故为研究完整力学系统的约束力,需采用有多余坐标的带乘子的Lagrange方程或第一类Lagrange 方程. 一些动力学问题要求约束力不能为零,而另一些问题要求约束力很小. 如果约束力为零,则称为系统的自由运动问题. 本文提出并研究了有多余坐标完整系统的自由运动问题. 为研究系统的自由运动,首先,由d'Alembert-Lagrange 原理, 利用Lagrange 乘子法建立有多余坐标完整系统的运动微分方程;其次,由多余坐标完整系统的运动方程和约束方程建立乘子满足的代数方程并得到约束力的表达式;最后,由约束系统自由运动的定义,令所有乘子为零,得到系统实现自由运动的条件. 这些条件的个数等于约束方程的个数,它们依赖于系统的动能、广义力和约束方程,给出其中任意两个条件,均可以得到实现自由运动时对另一个条件的限制. 即当给定动能和约束方程,这些条件会给出实现自由运动时广义力之间的关系. 当给定动能和广义力,这些条件会给出实现自由运动时对约束方程的限制. 当给定广义力和约束方程,这些条件会给出实现自由运动时对动能的限制. 文末,举例并说明方法和结果的应用.      

Hagedorn's theorem in some special cases of rheonomic systems

Hagedorn's theorem on instability [Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 58 (1976) 1], deduced from Jacobi's form of Hamilton's principle, refers to scleronomic mechanical systems. In this paper we shall prove that Hagedorn's methodology can be generalized to a class of rheonomic mechanical systems with differential equations of motion which allow the existence of Painlevé's integral of energy. The application of this methodology to the case of rheonomic systems which allow, together with Painlevé's integral, cyclic integrals, as well as to the mechanical systems having resultant motion, with prescribed transport motion, and, finally, to the systems having Mayer's rheonomic potential, are also considered. Obtained results are illustrated by an example.     

用具有负定矩阵的梯度系统构造稳定的变质量力学系统

随着科学技术的发展,对喷气飞机、火箭等变质量系统动力学的研究显得越来越重要, 并且总是希望变质量系统的解是稳定的或渐近稳定的. 而通用的研究稳定性的Lyapunov直接法有很大难度, 因为直接从微分方程出发构造Lyapunov函数往往很难实现. 本文给出一种研究稳定性的间接方法, 即梯度系统方法. 该方法不但能揭示动力学系统的内在结构, 而且有助于探索系统的稳定性、渐进性和分岔等动力学行为. 梯度系统的函数V通常取为Lyapunov函数, 因此梯度系统比较适合用Lyapunov函数来研究. 列写出变质量完整力学系统的运动方程,在系统非奇异情形下,求得所有广义加速度. 提出一类具有负定矩阵的梯度系统, 并研究该梯度系统解的稳定性. 把这类梯度系统和变质量力学系统有机结合,给出变质量力学系统的解可以是稳定的或渐近稳定的条件, 进一步利用矩阵为负定非对称的梯度系统构造出一些解为稳定或渐近稳定的变质量力学系统. 通过具体例子,研究了变质量系统的单自由度运动,在怎样的质量变化规律、微粒分离速度和加力下,其解是稳定的或渐近稳定的. 本文的构造方法也适合其它类型的动力学系统.