Kinematic Synthesis over Curves Using Cellular Decompositions and Chebyshev Interpolants
摘要
An approach for kinematic synthesis of mechanisms is proposed when the constraints define an algebraic curve. This method first computes a numerical cellular decomposition of the real part of the curve. In such a decomposition, each edge is represented by an interior point and a homotopy that permits tracking along the edge. This numerical representation of each edge is converted to Chebyshev interpolants which facilitate efficient optimization of an analytic or non-analytic function. Illustrative examples along with synthesizing a four-bar linkage are provided which utilize Bertini_real to compute a numerical cellular decomposition and Chebfun to compute Chebyshev interpolants.