TY - CHAP
T1 - Reconstruction of an Ancient Blossoming Flower Automaton with a Circular-arc Cam
AU - Chen, Yu Hsun
AU - Ceccarelli, Marco
AU - Yan, Hong Sen
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan) under Grant MOST 106-2221-E-006 -100 -MY3 for the support of this work. The first author wishes to gratefully acknowledge the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei, Taiwan) through grant 105-2917-I-006-008 for permitting her period of study at LARM of Cassino University in the A.Y. 2016-17 within a double PhD degree program.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The herein investigated blossoming flower automaton is one of the ingenious mechanical devices made in the 18th century to entertain people. Although this automaton is still preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, its inner works are generally not open by the public, and the mechanical structure is unknown. A reconstruction design procedure for ancient automata with unclear mechanical structure is provided, including mechanism design and performance analysis. One of the reconstructed mechanisms of the blossoming flower automaton is selected, and an easy-making cam with circular-arc profile is used. The motion characteristics are checked not only by computer-aid modeling and simulation but also through the prototype manufacturing and testing with 3D printing components and image/video analysis software, and the numerical results are presented for a performance evaluation and characterization.
AB - The herein investigated blossoming flower automaton is one of the ingenious mechanical devices made in the 18th century to entertain people. Although this automaton is still preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, its inner works are generally not open by the public, and the mechanical structure is unknown. A reconstruction design procedure for ancient automata with unclear mechanical structure is provided, including mechanism design and performance analysis. One of the reconstructed mechanisms of the blossoming flower automaton is selected, and an easy-making cam with circular-arc profile is used. The motion characteristics are checked not only by computer-aid modeling and simulation but also through the prototype manufacturing and testing with 3D printing components and image/video analysis software, and the numerical results are presented for a performance evaluation and characterization.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-20131-9_114
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-20131-9_114
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85067564700
T3 - Mechanisms and Machine Science
SP - 1151
EP - 1160
BT - Mechanisms and Machine Science
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -