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Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse I.N.S.A. de Toulouse, Complexe Scientifique de Rangueil, 31077 TOULOUSE Tel: 61.55.97.18 Fax: 61.55.97.00 E-mail: jc.fauroux@gmm.insa-tlse.fr marc.sartor@gmm.insa-tlse.fr
Abstract. We intend to find a way for assisting the mechanism designer at the early beginning of the designing phase. Our purpose is to define the general architecture of a mechanism made of N elementary mechanisms serially connected. We introduce the notion of skeleton and present a model of such a mechanical structure in order to solve the geometrical synthesis problem with an optimization method. The example of a three stage gear reducer is provided.
1. Problem setting2. Geometrical study of a few reducer stages
3. Geometrical model of a reducer
4. Expression of the optimization problem