Abstract: This paper presents a synthesis technique for the Cam-Link Combined Mechanisms. A general method of synthesis of this type of mechanism is proposed with the consideration of effect of elastic links on the cam profile. The state space variables and design variables are employed for a unified formulation of the system kinematic equations which can be obtained by means of differential and variational calculations. Structure of the computational algorithm to implement the formulations is presented and one synthesis problem is solved to illustrate the method.

Key words: 尺度综合, 计算机辅助设计, 凸轮连杆组合机构