121890 20241125101130.0 doi 10.3390/app13031937 sideral 132240 ART-2023-132240 eng Bianchi, Edoardo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9162-9215 Study and Simulation of an Under-Actuated Smart Surface for Material Flow Handling 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Smart surfaces are becoming more and more popular in the field of intralogistics, as they combine great flexibility with easy reprogrammability. Pursuing this trend, the following article proposes a modular surface to perform handling tasks, such as sorting, stopping, or slowing down material flows. Differently from the current technology, the surface used is under-actuated, thus, it exploits the speed, already possessed by the object, or the gravity to perform, with a simplified hardware, for the aforementioned tasks. In practice, these handling actions are completed using an array of rotors, of which only the direction of the rotation axis is controlled. Moreover, the axis can only assume certain discrete orientations in the plane, further simplifying the design. Thus, what is created is a controllable and under-actuated friction field, which, in contrast with similar existing systems, does not require active driving forces to manipulate the material flow. In the article, the analytic model of the surface is described, and a software simulation environment is introduced to demonstrate its functioning. In addition, examples of sorting, slowing down, and stopping operations and a validation of the simulation itself are presented. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/814225/EU/DIGItal MANufacturing Technologies for Zero-defect Industry 4.0 Production/DIGIMAN4.0 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 814225-DIGIMAN4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 2.5 2023 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 44 / 181 = 0.243 2023 Q1 T1 PHYSICS, APPLIED 87 / 179 = 0.486 2023 Q2 T2 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 115 / 231 = 0.498 2023 Q2 T2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 258 / 439 = 0.588 2023 Q3 T2 0.508 2023 Engineering (miscellaneous) 2023 Q2 Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 2023 Q2 Materials Science (miscellaneous) 2023 Q2 Instrumentation 2023 Q2 Process Chemistry and Technology 2023 Q3 Computer Science Applications 2023 Q3 5.3 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Jorg, Oliver Jonas Fantoni, Gualtiero Brosed Dueso, Francisco Javier Brosed Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3080-9217 Yagüe-Fabra, José A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7152-4117 5002 515 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Diseño Fabri. Área Ing. Procesos Fabricación 13, 3 (2023), 1937 [28 pp.] Appl. sci. Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 2076-3417 2460814 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/121890/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2652641 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/121890/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:121890 articulos driver 2024-11-22-11:58:47 ARTICLE