adding velocity in rigid dynamics

- April 26, 2023 at 10:35 pm
  
  anna
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, sorry if this is a silly question as I am quite new to ANSYS but I want to simulate a robot arm in ANSYS rigid dynamics in order to calculate its energy consumption, and i've added rotation joint loads in order to make the robot joints bend. If I want to find out how the energy differs as I change the velocity, how exactly do I define the velocity of the robot in Rigid Dynamics as I don't see an option to do this? For example if I want the robot to move at 1m/s how do I do this?
- April 27, 2023 at 3:03 am
  
  Sampat Kumar
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Anna,
  you should follow the following process
  create a translational joint body to body(right-click on the joint in the connection tree then select translational in the ” type”) -> select the joint load in the transient -> select the velocity.
  
  For more information, you can follow the attached link- 2.3. Connecting Multibody Components with Joint Elements (ansys.com)
  All the best!
  
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