Conclusion

The estimation method and tools presented in this article are designed to support the preliminary design of mechatronic power transmission systems. These models, based on scaling laws, can be used to estimate the main characteristics of mechatronic components during the synthesis and architecture comparison stages. They do not replace detailed design models specific to each technology, as they are based on simplifying assumptions such as geometric similarity, but they do enable the characteristics of a known component to be rapidly extrapolated to a possible component of the same technology.

This modeling methodology can be applied to the various physical domains and design constraints of mechatronic component technologies. The same reasoning can therefore be applied to the study of a complete mechatronic power transmission chain. The parameters derived from these...