Title: Design and application of magnetic coupling used for ultra-high vacuum robot

Authors: Ming Cong, Teng Li

Addresses: Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining, Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. ' Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining, Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China

Abstract: Aiming at the solutions of leaking problems exist in some special industries including the vacuum robot area, we bring out the technology of magnetic transmission module used for ultra-high vacuum robot. Though the magnetic transmission technology had been expanded rapidly for decades with the development of magnetic materials in the 1970s, there are scarcely some cases using magnetic transmission for robots in China. The principle of the magnetic transmission is presented in the beginning of this paper and then we introduce the designing process of the magnetic coupling. During the process of designing, we use the ANSYS software to do analysis of the magnetic circuit to achieve optimisation. In the end of this paper, we draw a conclusion that the magnetic coupling designed by us is fit for the power transportation for ultra-high vacuum environment and the torque can be transmitted to meet the designing goal.

Keywords: magnetic transmission; ultra-high vacuum robots; magnetic circuit optimisation; FEA; finite element analysis; magnetic coupling; China; robot design.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2010.030202

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2010 Vol.8 No.1/2/3/4, pp.231 - 246

Published online: 11 Dec 2009 *

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