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What are harmonic drives used for?
Harmonic Drives have been employed in a variety of applications that range from such low-cost consumer applications as vending machines and rotating home-television antennas to sophisticated systems for military and aerospace use.
What is harmonic drive system?
Harmonic Drive® rotary actuators are the easiest solution for your high precision motion control applications. Performance matched precision gearing, motors, and encoders are designed to provide a power dense, cost effective solution.
What is strain wave gear aka Harmonic Drive?
Strain wave gearing (also known as harmonic gearing) is a type of mechanical gear system that uses a flexible spline with external teeth, which is deformed by a rotating elliptical plug to engage with the internal gear teeth of an outer spline.
Can you Backdrive a harmonic drive?
A high ratio harmonic drive is non-backdrivable because its output shaft cannot be turned by applying a torque on it.
Who invented harmonic drive?
C. Walton Musser
The mechanism was the brainchild of the genius American inventor C. Walton Musser. Mr. Musser was a brilliant inventor who was awarded more than 200 patents, in a wide range of fields going even beyond his specialty in mechanical engineering to include also physics, chemistry, and biology.
What is Backdrivable actuator?
Backdrivability provide actuators with high force sensitivity and high impact resistance which adapts to quick external force mechanically. In rehabilitation robotics, particularly in upper limbrobotics, the drives must be able to deliver high torques at low velocity.
Are cycloidal gearboxes Backdrivable?
Backdriveability of Cycloidal drives Cycloidal drives are not, in general, backdrivable.
Is a harmonic drive Backdrivable?
A high ratio harmonic drive is non-backdrivable because its output shaft cannot be turned by applying a torque on it. The instrumentation of the harmonic drive with torque sensor is then described.
What does Backdrivable mean?
A backdrive is a component used in reverse to obtain its input from its output. This extends to many concepts and systems from thought based to practical mechanical applications. Not every system can be backdriven.