How can i make a Cam and Rolling Follower using Simscape?
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Hello im trying to model a cam and rolling follower in simscape such as the link below shows. http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/pluginfile.php/6886/mod_resource/content/1/ch8/sec4/img2.gif
My current attempt to model this is by using a point curve constraint for the rolling follower body with the curve being the points going around the circumference of the roller. And a second point curve constraint with the curve representing the cam body. I then connected the two points with a shared environment block.
The roller follower is on a prismatic joint to move only up and down. While the cam is on a revolute joint to rotate with a joint actuator providing a torque.
My question is can i use these two point curve constraints, and shared environment block the way i have described and should i be using periodic, knot a not, or normal configuration? Or is there a better way using other constraints or methods?
Thanks this is my first post on Mathworks.
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Steve Miller
on 6 Dec 2022
In the File Exchange submission Simscape Multibody Contact Forces Library
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47417-simscape-multibody-contact-forces-library
See example Cam_Follower_Constraint.slx
--Steve
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