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Design of Self-Contained Hydraulically Actuated Winch Drive

Author

Term

4. term

Publication year

2016

Pages

71

Abstract

Dette projekt undersøger, hvordan et pumpedrevet hydraulisk aktuatorsystem til et spil kan forbedres ved at fjerne den traditionelle tank. Tanken forsyner pumpen med hydraulikolie, men er dyr at fremstille og ofte meget større end selve aktuatoren, hvilket er upraktisk. Som et kompakt alternativ undersøges en bootstrap-cylinder, hvor det ene kammer forbindes på samme måde som den tidligere tank, og det andet kammer kobles til pumpens udløb. Med denne konfiguration bliver aktuatoren et selvstændigt system uden ekstern tank. Målet er at fastlægge den fysiske dimensionering af bootstrap-cylinderen, så dens anvendelse ikke forringer spillets dynamiske ydeevne.

This project explores improving a pump-driven hydraulic actuator for a winch by removing the conventional tank. The tank supplies hydraulic oil to the pump but is expensive to manufacture and often much larger than the actuator, which is impractical. As a compact alternative, the project investigates a bootstrap cylinder in which one chamber is connected in the same way as the former tank and the other chamber is connected to the pump outlet. With this configuration, the actuator becomes a self-contained system that does not need an external tank. The objective is to determine the physical dimensions of the bootstrap cylinder so that its integration does not impair the winch drive’s dynamic performance.

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