In what other industries can torque sensors be used?
2025-01-09
| Industrial automation Monitoring Equipment Operating Status: In equipment such as electric motors, gear reducers, conveyor belts, and winches, torque sensors can measure torque and rotational speed in real time, helping operators monitor the equipment’s operating condition, promptly detect issues like overload and malfunctions, and thereby enhance production efficiency and equipment reliability.
Achieving precise control: Equipment such as robotic arms and articulated robots used in automated production lines can accurately detect torque variations at the joints, enabling precise control of robotic movements and ensuring that they perform high-precision operations—such as component assembly and welding—during the manufacturing process.
Automotive industry Powertrain Monitoring: Installed in areas such as the automobile engine, transmission, and drivetrain, this system measures and monitors torque variations during power transmission, providing accurate data to the engine control unit. This enables precise control of engine output power, improving fuel economy and driving performance.
Vehicle Safety Assurance: In critical vehicle components such as the steering system and braking system, torque sensors can monitor torque data in real time. When abnormal torque changes occur, they promptly alert the driver or activate corresponding safety protection mechanisms, thereby ensuring driving safety.
Aerospace Engine Performance Monitoring: In aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems, torque sensors can measure the torque of the engine rotor, monitor the engine's operational status, ensure stable operation under various conditions, and provide critical assurance for flight safety.
Flight Control System: The joint components used in the flight control system can sense the forces acting on the aircraft’s control surfaces, providing accurate feedback information to the flight control system. This enables the aircraft to respond more precisely to the pilot’s control inputs, enhancing flight stability and handling performance.
Energy industry Wind Power Generation: In the transmission system and blade pitch control system of wind turbines, torque sensors can monitor torque changes in real time, helping to adjust blade angles and control generator speed. This ensures that the wind turbine can generate electricity efficiently and stably under various wind speeds, thereby improving power generation efficiency.
Hydropower: By installing torque sensors at the shaft of a turbine, it is possible to measure the turbine’s torque and rotational speed, monitor its operational status, and achieve automated control and optimized operation of hydropower stations, thereby enhancing the efficiency and reliability of hydropower generation.
Medical devices Surgical robots: By equipping the joints of surgical robots with torque sensors, surgeons can sense the contact forces and torques between surgical instruments and human tissues during procedures, enabling more precise control of surgical maneuvers and enhancing both the safety and success rate of surgeries.
Rehabilitation devices—such as smart prosthetics and exoskeleton rehabilitation robots—use torque sensors to detect in real time the patient’s joint movement intentions and force requirements, providing corresponding assistance or resistance to the rehabilitation devices. This helps patients perform rehabilitation training more effectively and enhances the overall rehabilitation outcomes.
Agricultural machinery Tractor: By installing torque sensors in the tractor’s transmission and hydraulic systems, it is possible to monitor torque variations, enabling precise control of the tractor’s power output. This improves the tractor’s operational efficiency and fuel economy while also protecting agricultural machinery from damage caused by overload.
Harvester: The cutterbar, conveying system, and other components of the harvester are equipped with real-time torque monitoring capabilities, ensuring stable operation under various working conditions and improving harvesting quality and efficiency.
Scientific research experiment Research in Materials Mechanics: In materials mechanical property testing experiments, torque sensors can be used to measure the torque and deformation of materials under torsional loading, providing accurate data support for studying the materials' strength, toughness, and other mechanical properties.
Robotics Technology R&D: During the robotics development process, torque sensors can help researchers gain a deeper understanding of the force conditions and motion characteristics of robotic joints, providing a basis for optimizing the robot’s structural design and control algorithms, and thus driving the continuous advancement of robotics technology. |
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