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The purpose of this study is to establish a novel airfoil icing prediction model using deep learning with geometrical constraints, called geometrical constraints enhancement…
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to establish a novel airfoil icing prediction model using deep learning with geometrical constraints, called geometrical constraints enhancement neural networks, to improve the prediction accuracy compared to the non-geometrical constraints model.
Design/methodology/approach
The model is developed with flight velocity, ambient temperature, liquid water content, median volumetric diameter and icing time taken as inputs and icing thickness given as outputs. To enhance the icing prediction accuracy, the model involves geometrical constraints into the loss function. Then the model is trained according to icing samples of 2D NACA0012 airfoil acquired by numerical simulation.
Findings
The results show that the involvement of geometrical constraints effectively enhances the prediction accuracy of ice shape, by weakening the appearance of fluctuation features. After training, the airfoil icing prediction model can be used for quickly predicting airfoil icing.
Originality/value
This work involves geometrical constraints in airfoil icing prediction model. The proposed model has reasonable capability in the fast assessment of aircraft icing.
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Haitao Liu, Junfu Zhou, Guangxi Li, Juliang Xiao and Xucang Zheng
This paper aims to present a new trajectory scheduling method to generate a smooth and continuous trajectory for a hybrid machining robot.
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Purpose
This paper aims to present a new trajectory scheduling method to generate a smooth and continuous trajectory for a hybrid machining robot.
Design/methodology/approach
The trajectory scheduling method includes two steps. First, a G3 continuity local smoothing approach is proposed to smooth the toolpath. Then, considering the tool/joint motion and geometric error constraints, a jerk-continuous feedrate scheduling method is proposed to generate the trajectory.
Findings
The simulations and experiments are conducted on the hybrid robot TriMule-800. The simulation results demonstrate that this method is effectively applicable to machining trajectory scheduling for various parts and is computationally friendly. Moreover, it improves the robot machining speed and ensures smooth operation under constraints. The results of the S-shaped part machining experiment show that the resulting surface profile error is below 0.12 mm specified in the ISO standard, confirming that the proposed method can ensure the machining accuracy of the hybrid robot.
Originality/value
This paper implements an analytical local toolpath smoothing approach to address the non-high-order continuity problem of the toolpath expressed in G code. Meanwhile, the feedrate scheduling method addresses the segmented paths after local smoothing, achieving smooth and continuous trajectory generation to balance machining accuracy and machining efficiency.
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Xiaohui Jia, Bin Zhao, Jinyue Liu and Shaolong Zhang
Traditional robot arm trajectory planning methods have problems such as insufficient generalization performance and low adaptability. This paper aims to propose a method to plan…
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Purpose
Traditional robot arm trajectory planning methods have problems such as insufficient generalization performance and low adaptability. This paper aims to propose a method to plan the robot arm’s trajectory using the trajectory learning and generalization characteristics of dynamic motion primitives (DMPs).
Design/methodology/approach
This study aligns multiple demonstration motion primitives using dynamic time warping; use the Gaussian mixture model and Gaussian mixture regression methods to obtain the ideal primitive trajectory actions. By establishing a system model that improves DMPs, the parameters of the nonlinear function are learned based on the ideal primitive trajectory actions of the robotic arm, and the robotic arm motion trajectory is reproduced and generalized.
Findings
Experiments have proven that the robot arm motion trajectory learned by the method proposed in this article can not only learn to generalize and demonstrate the movement trend of the primitive trajectory, but also can better generate ideal motion trajectories and avoid obstacles when there are obstacles. The maximum Euclidean distance between the generated trajectory and the demonstration primitive trajectory is reduced by 29.9%, and the average Euclidean distance is reduced by 54.2%. This illustrates the feasibility of this method for robot arm trajectory planning.
Originality/value
It provides a new method for the trajectory planning of robotic arms in unstructured environments while improving the adaptability and generalization performance of robotic arms in trajectory planning.
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