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Publication date: 8 May 2018

Linlin Li and Jiajun Yang

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of surface roughness on the lubrication performances of the linear rolling guide, which provides theoretical guidance for its…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of surface roughness on the lubrication performances of the linear rolling guide, which provides theoretical guidance for its lubrication design.

Design/methodology/approach

The two-variable Weierstrass–Mandelbrot function is used to represent the random and multi-scale characteristics of the rough surface topography. The elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) model of contact between the steel ball and raceway is built. The full numerical solutions of the pressure and film thickness are obtained by using the multi-grid technique.

Findings

The presence of surface roughness can cause the random fluctuations of the pressure and film thickness, and the fluctuations can become more dramatic for the rougher surfaces. It is also found that the film characteristics can be influenced significantly by the working conditions, such as the load, velocity and ambient viscosity of lubricants.

Originality/value

Characterization of surface topographies regarding EHL problems in the past studies cannot reflect random and multi-scale characteristics. In this paper, the fractal-based method is introduced to analysis of the point-contact micro-EHL. It reveals the mechanism and law of contact lubrication influenced by the fractal surface roughness and enriches the lubrication principle and method of the linear rolling guide.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 70 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 8 May 2018

Linlin Li and Jiajun Yang

This paper aims to predict the dynamic behaviors of contact between the steel ball and raceway in the elastohydrodynamically lubricated ball linear guide, thus providing a…

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Purpose

This paper aims to predict the dynamic behaviors of contact between the steel ball and raceway in the elastohydrodynamically lubricated ball linear guide, thus providing a guidance for lubrication design for ball linear guide.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the point contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) theory, the free vibration model of contact pair is presented to qualitatively analyze the effect of vibration on the film characteristics. The models of the film stiffness and damping coefficient under the EHL condition are built to investigate the effects of the working conditions on the dynamic parameters. The full numerical solutions are obtained using the multigrid technique.

Findings

It is found that there exists damping from the decay of oscillations of the pressure and film thickness in the lubricated ball linear guide. Furthermore, the working conditions of the high load or low velocity can lead to the increase in the film stiffness in the steel ball-raceway contact, but there is a reverse variation trend for the film damping coefficient.

Originality/value

The contact pair has been usually treated as dry in past studies on dynamics of the ball linear guide, and the damping is neglected. This research considers the actual lubrication and working conditions and predicts the dynamic behaviors of contact pair.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 70 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 14 September 2015

Linlin Li, Jiajun Yang and Wenwei Liu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of surface roughness characterized by fractal geometry on squeeze film damping characteristics in damper of the linear rolling…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of surface roughness characterized by fractal geometry on squeeze film damping characteristics in damper of the linear rolling guide, which has not been studied so far.

Design/methodology/approach

The stochastic model of film thickness between rail and damper is established by using the two-variable Weierstrass–Mandelbrot function defining multi-scale and self-affinity properties of the rough surface topography. The stochastically averaged Reynolds equation is solved by using the variables separation method to further derive the film pressure distribution, the damping coefficient, the damping force and squeeze film time. The effect of surface roughness on squeeze film damping characteristics of the damper is analyzed and discussed through simulation.

Findings

By comparing cases of the rough surface for different fractal parameters and the smooth surface, it is shown that for the isotropic roughness structure, the presence of surface roughness of the damper decreases the squeeze film damping characteristics. It is found that roughness effect on the damping coefficient is associated with the film thickness. In addition, the vibration amplitude effect is negligible for the damper of the linear rolling guide.

Originality/value

To investigate the random surface roughness effect, the rough surface topography of damper of the linear rolling guide is characterized by using the fractal method instead of the traditional mathematical statistics method.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 67 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 15 April 2022

Mohamed Abd Alsamieh

The purpose of this study is to investigate the combined effect of surface force, solvation and Van der Waals forces and surface topography parameters of amplitude and wavelength…

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the combined effect of surface force, solvation and Van der Waals forces and surface topography parameters of amplitude and wavelength on the formation of ultrathin films for elastohydrodynamic lubrication of point contact problems.

Design/methodology/approach

The Newton–Raphson technique is used to simultaneously solve the Reynolds’ film thickness including surface roughness and elastic deformation, surface force of solvation and Van der Waals forces and load balance equations. Different values of surface amplitude and wavelength were simulated in addition to the load variation.

Findings

The simulation results revealed that roughness effects are important as the film thickness decreases. The oscillation in the pressure and film thickness is due to the combined action of the solvation force and surface topography parameters. The limiting values of the surface topography parameters of the amplitude and wavelength varied and depended on the load. For different values of wavelength and load, amplitude values up to 0.25 nm have no effect on ultrathin film formation.

Originality/value

The combined effect of the surface force and surface roughness on the formation of ultrathin films was evaluated for elastohydrodynamic lubrication of point contact problems under different operating conditions of load and surface topography parameters of amplitude and wavelength. The limited surface topography parameters of the amplitude and wavelength are shown and analyzed.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 74 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 30 October 2020

Gaoxin Cheng, Linsen Xu, Jiajun Xu, Jinfu Liu, Jia Shi, Shouqi Chen, Lei Liu, Xingcan Liang and Yang Liu

This paper aims to develop a robotic mirror therapy system for lower limb rehabilitation, which is applicable for different patients with individual movement disability levels.

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Purpose

This paper aims to develop a robotic mirror therapy system for lower limb rehabilitation, which is applicable for different patients with individual movement disability levels.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper puts forward a novel system that includes a four-degree-of-freedom sitting/lying lower limb rehabilitation robot and a wireless motion data acquisition system based on mirror therapy principle. The magnetorheological (MR) actuators are designed and manufactured, whose characteristics are detected theoretically and experimentally. The passive training control strategy is proposed, and the trajectory tracking experiments verify its feasibility. Also, the active training controller that is adapt to the human motor ability is designed and evaluated by the comparison experiments.

Findings

The MR actuators produce continuously variable and compliant torque for robotic joints by adjusting excitation current. The reference limb joint position data collected by the wireless motion data acquisition system can be used as the motion trajectory of the robot to drive the affected limb. The passive training strategy based on proportional-integral control proves to have great trajectory tracking performance through experiments. In the active training mode, by comparing the real-time parameters adjustment in two phases, it is certified that the proposed fuzzy-based regulated impedance controller can adjust assistance torque according to the motor ability of the affected limb.

Originality/value

The system developed in this paper fulfills the needs of robot-assisted mirror therapy for hemiplegic patients.

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Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, vol. 48 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Publication date: 27 January 2025

Guisheng Gan, Hao Yang, Jie Luo, Yongchong Ma, Jiajun Zhang, Xin Liu, Qiao He, Leqi Li and Dayong Cheng

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aging time on the microstructure, mechanical properties and fracture morphology of Cu/Zn160%SAC0307/Al solder joints…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aging time on the microstructure, mechanical properties and fracture morphology of Cu/Zn160%SAC0307/Al solder joints produced through solid-state bonding.

Design/methodology/approach

Zn particles with a size of 1 µm and Sn-0.3Ag-0.7Cu (SAC0307) particles ranging from 20 to 38 µm were used to achieve Cu/Al micro-connections using ultrasonic assistance at a temperature of 180 °C, followed by aging treatment at 150 °C to enhance the quality of Cu/Al joints. Scanning electron microscopy was used for observing and analyzing the solder seam, interface microstructure, and fracture morphology. The structural composition was determined using energy dispersive spectroscopy, while a PTR-1102 bonding tester was used to measure the average shear strength.

Findings

The results indicated that the intermetallic compounds formed at the interface between Cu substrates and solder metal primarily consisted of smooth Cu5Zn8. The Al-side interface mainly comprises an Al-Sn-Zn solid solution, with Zn-Sn-Cu phases forming between SAC0307 particles at 180 °C. During the aging process, atomic diffusion was accelerated, leading to improved connection quality. The shear strength of the joints initially increased before decreasing as aging time progressed; it peaked at 32.92 MPa after 24 h – an increase of 76.8% compared to as-received joints. After reaching stability at 96 h, there was still a notable increase in shear strength by 48.4% relative to as-received joints.

Originality/value

This study further explores the strengthening mechanisms associated with solid-state bonded Cu/SACZ/Al joints through aging processes. Joints created via solid-state bonding demonstrate superior reliability compared to traditional soldered connections. It is anticipated that insights gained from this research will contribute valuable knowledge toward developing low-temperature soldering methodologies for heterogeneous materials.

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Microelectronics International, vol. 42 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1356-5362

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Publication date: 16 October 2017

Jiajun Li, Jianguo Tao, Liang Ding, Haibo Gao, Zongquan Deng, Yang Luo and Zhandong Li

The purpose of this paper is to extend the usage of stroke gestures in manipulation tasks to make the interaction between human and robot more efficient.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to extend the usage of stroke gestures in manipulation tasks to make the interaction between human and robot more efficient.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, a set of stroke gestures is designed for typical manipulation tasks. A gesture recognition and parameter extraction system is proposed to exploit the information in stroke gestures drawn by the users.

Findings

The results show that the designed gesture recognition subsystem can reach a recognition accuracy of 99.00 per cent. The parameter extraction subsystem can successfully extract parameters needed for typical manipulation tasks with a success rate about 86.30 per cent. The system shows an acceptable performance in the experiments.

Practical implications

Using stroke gesture in manipulation tasks can make the transmission of human intentions to the robots more efficient. The proposed gesture recognition subsystem is based on convolutional neural network which is robust to different input. The parameter extraction subsystem can extract the spatial information encoded in stroke gestures.

Originality/value

The author designs stroke gestures for manipulation tasks which is an extension of the usage of stroke gestures. The proposed gesture recognition and parameter extraction system can make use of stroke gestures to get the type of the task and important parameters for the task simultaneously.

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Industrial Robot: An International Journal, vol. 44 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Publication date: 23 October 2015

Shu Yi, Lin Xiao, Yong Zhang, Dujuan Duan and Maksim G. Blokhin

This paper describes the organic geochemical characteristics and their roles on barium enrichment in the No. 2 Coal from Huanglong Jurassic Coalfield, China. A total of 18 bench…

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This paper describes the organic geochemical characteristics and their roles on barium enrichment in the No. 2 Coal from Huanglong Jurassic Coalfield, China. A total of 18 bench samples were taken from Huangling Mine 2. The average content of barium (3701 mg/kg) was about 23 times higher than that of common world coals. Terrestrial higher plants were the main coal-forming parent material. Relying on the parameters of OEP, Pr/Ph and so on, there is little correlation between organic geochemical characteristics and barium enrichment. Therefore, organic material has little influence on the process of coal-forming and the enrichment of barium.

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World Journal of Engineering, vol. 12 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1708-5284

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Publication date: 13 April 2020

Qun Shi, Wangda Ying, Lei Lv and Jiajun Xie

This paper aims to present an intelligent motion attitude control algorithm, which is used to solve the poor precision problems of motion-manipulation control and the problems of…

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Purpose

This paper aims to present an intelligent motion attitude control algorithm, which is used to solve the poor precision problems of motion-manipulation control and the problems of motion balance of humanoid robots. Aiming at the problems of a few physical training samples and low efficiency, this paper proposes an offline pre-training of the attitude controller using the identification model as a priori knowledge of online training in the real physical environment.

Design/methodology/approach

The deep reinforcement learning (DRL) of continuous motion and continuous state space is applied to motion attitude control of humanoid robots and the robot motion intelligent attitude controller is constructed. Combined with the stability analysis of the training process and control process, the stability constraints of the training process and control process are established and the correctness of the constraints is demonstrated in the experiment.

Findings

Comparing with the proportion integration differentiation (PID) controller, PID + MPC controller and MPC + DOB controller in the humanoid robots environment transition walking experiment, the standard deviation of the tracking error of robots’ upper body pitch attitude trajectory under the control of the intelligent attitude controller is reduced by 60.37 per cent, 44.17 per cent and 26.58 per cent.

Originality/value

Using an intelligent motion attitude control algorithm to deal with the strong coupling nonlinear problem in biped robots walking can simplify the control process. The offline pre-training of the attitude controller using the identification model as a priori knowledge of online training in the real physical environment makes up the problems of a few physical training samples and low efficiency. The result of using the theory described in this paper shows the performance of the motion-manipulation control precision and motion balance of humanoid robots and provides some inspiration for the application of using DRL in biped robots walking attitude control.

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Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics research and application, vol. 47 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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Publication date: 11 December 2020

Jiajun Liu and Pingyu Jiang

Social manufacturing has emerged. It aims to integrate the manufacturing resources of micro- and small-scale manufacturing enterprises (MSMEs) and help MSMEs cope with the…

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Purpose

Social manufacturing has emerged. It aims to integrate the manufacturing resources of micro- and small-scale manufacturing enterprises (MSMEs) and help MSMEs cope with the dynamic, service-oriented and personalized market demands. In social manufacturing, MSMEs cooperate with each other through manufacturing resource sharing. However, because MSMEs are distributed and decentralized, the efficiency of establishing reliable cooperation between MSMEs is relatively low. Therefore, this paper presents a blockchain-driven cyber-credit evaluation system (BCCES) to implement distributed cyber-credit evaluation. BCCES can provide reliable cyber-credit for distributed MSMEs without the trusted third party. This can improve the efficiency of establishing reliable cooperation among unauthentic MSMEs.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper proposes a BCCES to evaluate MSMEs' cyber-credit in decentralized environment. In BCCES, a cyber-credit evaluation model is proposed by improving set pair analysis (SPA) method, and cyber-credit smart contract and distributed consensus mechanism are designed according to the runtime logic of distributed cyber-credit evaluation.

Findings

The results confirmed that BCCES is feasible and effective to implement cyber-credit evaluation without the trusted third party. With the advantages of blockchain, BCCES can automatically realize cyber-credit evaluation through smart contract and distributed consensus. At the same time, BCCES can evaluate the real-time cyber-credit of MSMEs based on their latest service evaluation. In addition, we can design corresponding smart contracts according to actual requirements, which makes blockchain applicable to different distributed scenarios.

Originality/value

The paper combines blockchain and SPA to implement cyber-credit evaluation in social manufacturing and provides a new feasible idea for cyber-credit evaluation without the trusted third party. This can also provide MSMEs a reference of applying blockchain to other distributed scenarios through combining smart contract and different algorithms.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 121 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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