How can I model V-belts and Chain Drives in SimMechanics 4.2 (R2013a)
MATLAB: Modeling V-belts and Chain Drives in SimMechanics
Simscape Multibody
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Hi Morgan,
The Cycloidal Drive block is a SimDriveline block, which means it connects directly to other Simscape mechanical blocks (but not to SimMechanics). The reason is that SimMechanics uses a separate 3-D mechanical domain, while Simscape/SimDriveline is all 1-D rotation OR 1-D translation.
The way you connect Simscape blocks to a SimMechanics block is to place them along a joint primitive. There's a submission on the File Exchange which shows how you can do this.
Using the blocks from the above submission, you can interface your Simscape rotational domain with a SimMechanics revolute primitive as shown below.
- Sebastian
There is this FileExchange submission which provides an extensive library for contact force modeling in Simscape Multibody. You can refer to Examples on given link to get started.
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