TY - GEN
T1 - GA-based kinematical synthesis of a watt type mechanism for prosthetic knee applications
AU - Merchán-Cruz, E. A.
AU - Lugo-González, E.
AU - Hernández-Gómez, L. H.
AU - Rodríguez-Cañizo, R. G.
AU - Sandoval-Pineda, J.
AU - Soria-Moya, A.
AU - Ramírez-Gordillo, J.
AU - Urriolagoitia-Sosa, G.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The synthesis of planar mechanism represents an attractive problem to be solved using evolutionary techniques as it involves an underdetermined nonlinear set of equations that grow in number as more precision points are defined to describe the desired trajectory of the coupler. This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach for optimisation of the kinematical synthesis of a 6-bar Watt type mechanism for prosthetic knee applications. The desired trajectory to be described by the coupler corresponds to the trajectory of the knee during a normal gait cycle. The generated trajectory illustrates how it naturally evolves from an erratic solution to a smooth fitted curve.
AB - The synthesis of planar mechanism represents an attractive problem to be solved using evolutionary techniques as it involves an underdetermined nonlinear set of equations that grow in number as more precision points are defined to describe the desired trajectory of the coupler. This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach for optimisation of the kinematical synthesis of a 6-bar Watt type mechanism for prosthetic knee applications. The desired trajectory to be described by the coupler corresponds to the trajectory of the knee during a normal gait cycle. The generated trajectory illustrates how it naturally evolves from an erratic solution to a smooth fitted curve.
KW - 6-bar mechanism
KW - Genetic algorithm
KW - Mechanism synthesis
KW - Prosthetic knee
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M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84862099357
SN - 9780889868694
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, CI 2010
SP - 113
EP - 118
BT - Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, CI 2010
T2 - 5th IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, CI 2010
Y2 - 23 August 2010 through 25 August 2010
ER -