III. Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis - JT

A kinematic analysis was performed by hand to determine the necessary relationships for position, velocity, and acceleration. These were for both linear and angular relationships of important links for this mechanism. The analysis involved the use of two vector loops to generate all of these relationships properly. The hand calculations for the kinematic analysis of my 5-bar slotted mechanism are shown below:

The design analysis shown in PMKS that was in the previous section is also capable of playing as an animation. This animation was used to see how the mechanism would be expected to operate when built in real life, and also had the purpose to convey how the motion of the mechanism would look without having to build the physical model first. This animation is shown below.

The equations from the kinematic analysis performed by hand were next plotted into MATLAB in an attempt to produce plots. Unfortunately, while the equations were mostly correct, the style of code written prevented the plots from being properly shown. However, one of the desired figures for the position of the mechanism was still obtained. The MATLAB code may be found in the appendix, and the figure produced by the script is shown below: