As a special reconfigurable mechanism, the Rubik’s Cube mechanism (RCM) has the characteristics of strong coupling, variable topology, reconfigurability, etc., which has attracted the attention of the majority of researchers. At the same time, these characteristics also seriously hinder the application and research of RCM. Therefore, the reconfigurable topological structure of regular tetrahedron RCM (RTRCM) is systematically studied in this paper, and a type synthesis method for RTRCM is proposed. The symmetry of the mechanism’s element of the RTRCM is analyzed, the symmetry of revolute axis and revolute pair contact surface (RPCS) are studied, the intersection law between RPCSs is explored, the intersection topology model for RPCSs is established, and the RTRCM with different topologies is obtained. The relevant research results in this paper further enrich the synthesis theory of reconfigurable mechanism, which can strongly support the innovative design of RCM and provide ideas for the application of RCM in various fields.

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Research of Synthesis of the Regular Tetrahedron Rubik’s Cube Mechanism

  • Dabao Fan,
  • Daxing Zeng,
  • Xiangyu Chen,
  • Yunjiao Deng,
  • Wenjuan Lu

摘要

As a special reconfigurable mechanism, the Rubik’s Cube mechanism (RCM) has the characteristics of strong coupling, variable topology, reconfigurability, etc., which has attracted the attention of the majority of researchers. At the same time, these characteristics also seriously hinder the application and research of RCM. Therefore, the reconfigurable topological structure of regular tetrahedron RCM (RTRCM) is systematically studied in this paper, and a type synthesis method for RTRCM is proposed. The symmetry of the mechanism’s element of the RTRCM is analyzed, the symmetry of revolute axis and revolute pair contact surface (RPCS) are studied, the intersection law between RPCSs is explored, the intersection topology model for RPCSs is established, and the RTRCM with different topologies is obtained. The relevant research results in this paper further enrich the synthesis theory of reconfigurable mechanism, which can strongly support the innovative design of RCM and provide ideas for the application of RCM in various fields.