An Innovative Scheme for Reduction of Power Requirement of Electromechanical Servo Drive System Used in Heavy Load Weapon System Articulation

Author

Parlikar, V.V. ; Kurulkar, P.M. ; Mishra, A.K. ; Kulkarni, A.N.

Author_Institution

R&DE (Enginers), Defence R&D Organ., Pune, India

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper an Innovative scheme for reduction of Power Requirement of Electromechanical Servo Drive used in heavy load weapon system articulation is presented. An electromechanical servo drive system is used for raising and lowering of heavy load weapon system for positioning it at predefined angle. Power requirement of this Servo Drive is very large due to heavy load. To reduce the power and torque requirement an innovative scheme with torsion bar is used. Torsion bar stores energy during lowering of load and releases it during raising the load. In this paper, application and design of torsion bar scheme is discussed which is used in a prestigious weapon system program.

Keywords

electromechanical actuators; servomechanisms; weapons; electromechanical servo drive system; heavy load weapon system articulation; innovative scheme; power requirement reduction; Bars; DC motors; Gears; Servomotors; Stress; Torque; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Process Automation, Control and Computing (PACC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-765-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACC.2011.5978975

Filename

5978975