ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION EXPERT SYSTEM OF PLANAR LINKAGE MECHANISM

The topology of a planar linkage mechanism can be represented as an undirected gragh. This paper deals with generating the movement propagation chain and separating solvable link groups from a mechanism graph,establishing rules for automatic generating constraint equations corresponding to existing constraint conditions and calculating the kinematics by variation geometry methord. A prototype software for analysis and simulation of planar linkage mechanism based on the above approach is also introduced.