ACKERMAN STEERING MECHANISM

PROJECT REPORT
BY

NAME REG NO
Manish Vankudre 15BME0134
Ninad Mirajgaonkar 15BME0515
Pratik Phuke 15BME0072
Pradipta Dutta 15BME0662

Name of faculty: Niranjana Behera

(SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) VIT

UNIVERSITY
May,2016
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CAL course.

Place- Vellore

Date- 2nd May 2017

Signature of Students:

1. Manish Vankudre
2. Ninad Mirajgaonkar
3. Pratik Phuke
4. Pradipta Dutta

Signature of Faculty:

Niranjana Behera
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 ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the synthesis of a steering mechanism that exactly

meets the requirements of Ackermann steering geometry. It starts from
reviewing of the four-bar linkage, then discusses the number of points that a
common four-bar linkage could precisely trace at most. After pointing out the
limits of a four-bar steering mechanism, this article investigates the turning
geometry for steering wheels and proposes a steering mechanism with
incomplete noncircular gears for vehicle by transforming the Ackermann
criteria into the mechanism synthesis.

The pitch curves, addendum curves, dedendum curves, tooth profiles and
transition curves of the noncircular gears are formulated and designed.
Kinematic simulations are executed to demonstrate the target of design.

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Objective of the Project-
Description of model-

Introduction

Ackermann steering geometry is a geometric arrangement of linkages in

the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of
wheels on the inside and outside of a turn needing to trace out circles of
different radii.

It was invented by the German carriage builder Georg Lankensperger in Munich

in 1817, then patented by his agent in England, Rudolph Ackermann (1764
1834) in 1818 for horse-drawn carriages. Erasmus Darwin may have a prior
claim as the inventor dating from 1758.
 PRINCIPLE:

The perfect steering is achieved when all the four wheels are rolling perfectly
under all conditions of running.

While taking turns, the condition of perfect rolling is satisfied if the axes of the
front wheels when produced meet the rear wheel axis at one point.

Then this point is the instantaneous centre of the vehicle.

The larger is the steering angle, the smaller is the turning circle.

There is however, a maximum to which we can go regards the steering angle.

It has been found that steering angle (of inner wheel) can have a maximum
value of about 44o.

The extreme positions on either side are called lock positions.

The diameter of smallest circle which the outer front wheel of a car can traverse
and obtained when wheels are at their extreme positions is known as the turning
circle.
 Parts

1) Steering Wheel-

2) Track Rod-
 3) Wheel:

4) Wheel Plate:
 4) Flanged End :

5)Male track rod end steering coloumn:

5) Male Track End:

10)Wheel Bracket:
6) Manual Steering Coloumn:

7) Pillow Block Bearing:

8) Shaft Connector:
Ackermann Steering Model
 Result and Analysis:

Static Strain Plot (Steering wheel)

 Static Displacement Plot(Steering Wheel)

Static Stress Plot (Track rod)

 Static Displacement Plot(Track rod)

Static Stress Plot (Steering Wheel)

 Static Strain Plot (Track rod)

SOLIDWORKS MODEL
 Since the car is turning toward the right, the right side wheel angle is more
than the left side wheel. This is so because, the right side wheel should cover
a small radius circle as compared to outer radius.

Thus Ackermann geometry is satisfied. Because of such arrangement the car

does not slip while turning. Vice-versa is the case when the car turns to the
left.
 CONCLUSION

The intention of Ackermann geometry is to avoid the need for tyres to

slip sideways when following the path around a curve. The geometrical
solution to this is for all wheels to have their axles arranged as radii of circles
with a common centre point. As the rear wheels are fixed, this centre point
must be on a line extended from the rear axle. Intersecting the axes of the front
wheels on this line as well requires that the inside front wheel is turned, when
steering, through a greater angle than the outside wheel.

Rather than the preceding "turntable" steering, where both front wheels
turned around a common pivot, each wheel gained its own pivot, close to its
own hub. While more complex, this arrangement enhances controllability by
avoiding large inputs from road surface variations being applied to the end of a
long lever arm, as well as greatly reducing the fore-and-aft travel of the steered
wheels. A linkage between these hubs pivots the two wheels together, and by
careful arrangement of the linkage dimensions the Ackermann geometry could
be approximated. This was achieved by making the linkage not a simple
parallelogram, but by making the length of the track rod (the moving link
between the hubs) shorter than that of the axle, so that the steering arms of the
hubs appeared to "toe out". As the steering moved, the wheels turned according
to Ackermann, with the inner wheel turning further. If the track rod is placed
ahead of the axle, it should instead be longer in comparison, thus preserving
this same "toe out".
 REFERENCES

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry

2) http://www.rctek.com/technical/handling/ackerman_steering_principle.html

3) http://www.auto-ware.com/setup/ack_rac.htm