The wavelike motion of a multilink system on a horizontal plane

✍ Scribed by F.L Chernous'ko

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 752 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8928
• DOI: 10.1016/s0021-8928(00)00075-7

✦ Synopsis

The motion of a plane multilink system on a horizontal plane is investigated assuming the existence of dry friction. The motion occurs, under the action of internal control torques applied at the system's joints. It is shown that modes of slow (quasi-static) motion exist in which the system advances along itself owing to a wave travelling along it, in which several links participate. These modes of motion differ :from previously studied fast (dynamical) modes of motion of multilink systems along a plane.