A procedure for a suitable selection of laws of motion and electric drive systems under inertial loads

The selection of the drive system and the transmission under dynamic loads has a profound effect on the machine performance. Such a selection has to be carried out taking into account the mechanical constraints of the required components, and in particular the operating ranges of the drive system. Once the machine task is specified, the correct choice of the motion law is followed by a suitable distribution of the generalized inertia between motor and load: this implies that drive system and transmission have to be selected simultaneously. In this paper an efficient method is proposed for choosing suitable components when the inertial loads are dominant, and the effects of the system parameters are discussed.