TY - GEN
T1 - A software tool for analyzing motions and loading in spatial Tensegrity structures
AU - Nelson, Carl A.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Tensegrity structures are a unique class of mechanisms since they are overconstrained but possess mobility due to member compliance. Visualization of these systems is an important step in their design. This paper presents a simulation tool developed in the MATLAB programming environment for simulation of spatial tensegrity structures. Particularly, it allows visualization of motion (animation) of tensegrity mechanisms, as well as determination of load distributions. A compatibility-based solution approach is used to handle the constraints of loading cables in tension only. The result is a design/analysis tool useful not only for tensegrity mechanisms, but general planar and spatial mechanisms as well. This is illustrated by examples.
AB - Tensegrity structures are a unique class of mechanisms since they are overconstrained but possess mobility due to member compliance. Visualization of these systems is an important step in their design. This paper presents a simulation tool developed in the MATLAB programming environment for simulation of spatial tensegrity structures. Particularly, it allows visualization of motion (animation) of tensegrity mechanisms, as well as determination of load distributions. A compatibility-based solution approach is used to handle the constraints of loading cables in tension only. The result is a design/analysis tool useful not only for tensegrity mechanisms, but general planar and spatial mechanisms as well. This is illustrated by examples.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2015-46339
DO - 10.1115/DETC2015-46339
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979085700
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 39th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2015
Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 5 August 2015
ER -