Working on a cycloidal drive system. This repo will include latex documents with notes from my research and python code for creating the cycloidal drive.
- See Latex PDF in /cycloidal_drive_tex/ for more details on equations and implementation
Can create visualizations of the "rolling circle" used to make cycloid shape as seen below:
The different shape parameters can be varied to see their effects on the final cycloid disc. Here's a final image from one run:
- Added feature to create "Parametric Equations" for Solidworks "Equation Driven Curve" and add parameters
- Can link the parameters text file to Solidworks to create "Global Variables" based on values set in script
Some future goals for this project:
- Improve visualization
- Potentially create 3D animations of a completed cycloidal drive in motion
- Improve testing