This paper presents development of the new haptic device for virtual wall collision test. Mathematical model of the proposed system considering virtual wall collision is developed and tuned by comparing force responses from simulation and experiment with free motion. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed model, a range of collision tests against virtual wall are accomplished, conditioned on different collision speeds to virtual wall. In addition, hybrid PI control scheme is applied to improve the performance of the proposed haptic system in virtual wall collision experiments.

This paper studies the effect of a playtykurtic excitation signal on fatigue life. In general, a vibration test uses an excitation signal having a normal distribution of kurtosis 3. However, a vibration signal generated in a product’s operation environment has usually a non-normal distribution. This paper uses ZMNL method to generate a playtykurtic excitation signal having the equivalent power spectrum density with a reference vibration profile. This paper proposes a method which uses a fatigue damage spectrum ratio for studying the effect of a playtykurtic excitation signal on fatigue life. The fatigue spectrum damage ratio is obtained by dividing a fatigue damage spectrum acquired using the acceleration profile in which all conditions are the same except for the kurtosis by a fatigue damage spectrum acquired theoretically. This paper shows that the signal of kurtosis less than 3 can increase the fatigue damage spectrum by more than 2 to 4 times compared to the signal of kurtosis 3 using the fatigue damage spectrum ratio.

This paper studies on the effect of kurtosis on fatigue life. A typical vibration test machine uses a normal distribution signal. However, the vibration signal generated in the actual operating environment is a non-normal distribution signal with kurtosis. In this paper, a signal which has the same power spectral density, but has different kurtosis is generated using the Zero Memory Non-Linear(ZMNL) method. The power spectral densities of these two signal will coincide within ±3dB. Fatigue damage spectrum(FDS) computed with a normal distribution signal and FDS computed with a non-normal distribution signal generated using the ZMNL method are compared. FDS computed using the normal distribution signal of kurtosis 3 will show a big difference over the 100Hz with FDS computed using the signal of kurtosis 6. This paper shows through such FDS comparison that a difference in fatigue life prediction may result in if a vibration profile which does not consider kurtosis occurring in the operating environment of a product is used in a vibration test.