Double four-bar crank-slider mechanism dynamic balancing by meta-heuristic algorithms
This addresses a specific mechanical engineering problem for mechanism design, but it is incremental as it applies existing algorithms to a known balancing task.
The paper tackles dynamic balancing of a double four-bar crank-slider mechanism by proposing a meta-heuristic optimization method, with results showing PSO and ABC algorithms are more efficient than BGA and HGAPSO in terms of convergence speed and quality.
In this paper, a new method for dynamic balancing of double four-bar crank slider mechanism by meta- heuristic-based optimization algorithms is proposed. For this purpose, a proper objective function which is necessary for balancing of this mechanism and corresponding constraints has been obtained by dynamic modeling of the mechanism. Then PSO, ABC, BGA and HGAPSO algorithms have been applied for minimizing the defined cost function in optimization step. The optimization results have been studied completely by extracting the cost function, fitness, convergence speed and runtime values of applied algorithms. It has been shown that PSO and ABC are more efficient than BGA and HGAPSO in terms of convergence speed and result quality. Also, a laboratory scale experimental doublefour-bar crank-slider mechanism was provided for validating the proposed balancing method practically.