FABRICATION, TESTING AND CALIBRATION OF TWO DIRECTIONAL FORCE SENSOR

Mechanical Engineering

2nd National Conference on Recent Trends & Innovations in Mechanical Engineering

Force and Torque sensors are important in robotic industries for various applications including assembling parts, accepting and rejecting the objects etc. Force and Torque measurement has become popular area of research has demanded by the respective applications. Considerable work has been done on the Force and Torque measurement using different techniques like strain gauges and piezoelectric sensors mounted on flexible members. For specific applications physical models have been proposed with characterization for the Forces and the Torque. This thesis describes development of Two Directional Force Sensor for force measuring along X and Y axis simultaneously using strain gauges. Mechanical structure for the Force sensor has been developed which contains sensing element mounted near optimize strain region. The identified parameters are characterized against the loading forces in X and Y direction. Generalized equations are developed for this parameters subsequently valuated using soft computing tool i.e., ANSYS software. Results shows that the sensitivity of device can be increased by changing physical parameters of sensing element, and so as to apply this device for assembling platform or robotic are configurations.

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