Robotic Arm Smoking Path Simulation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cigarette smoking simulation systems fail to accurately simulate the entire smoking process, including dynamic actions like wrist overturning and ash flicking, leading to incomplete and subjective test results that do not accurately represent real smoking conditions.
Innovation Solution
A smoking path simulation system based on a robotic arm, incorporating a cigarette holder, feeding device, tapping device, lighting device, image acquisition system, and ambient airflow detection, which replicates the entire smoking process, including cigarette lighting, smoking, and ash handling, using a robotic arm to mimic human smoking actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a smoking machine is used to test cigarette combustion, then the testing process is automated, but the test results are incomplete and lack objectivity because they cannot simulate the entire smoking process including wrist overturning and ash flicking actions
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the smoking simulation into distinct functional modules: a robotic arm for positioning and movement, a cigarette holder for clamping, a lighter for ignition, and an image acquisition device for detection. Each module performs a specific function, collectively achieving complete smoking process simulation while maintaining automated testing capability
Solution Approach 2:
The robotic arm serves multiple functions: positioning the cigarette holder, controlling the smoking path, and coordinating with other devices. The system can simulate various smoking actions including lighting, holding at different angles, and ash flicking, making it adaptable to different testing requirements while maintaining automation
2Device complexity
If only partial smoking actions are tested, then the testing process is simplified, but the test results fail to represent real smoking conditions accurately
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a robotic arm to copy human smoking actions, replicating the complete smoking process including arm movement, wrist overturning, and ash flicking. This creates a faithful reproduction of real smoking conditions while maintaining a systematic and repeatable testing process
Solution Approach 2:
The image acquisition device captures real-time images of the cigarette combustion state, providing feedback on the smoking process. This allows for objective measurement and verification of the simulated smoking actions, ensuring test results accurately represent real conditions
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AI summary
A smoking path simulation system includes a case, the robotic arm fixedly provided in the case and a cigarette holder mounted at a working end of the robotic arm, and further includes a feeding device, a cigarette tapping device and a cigarette lighting device provided in the case and located at a periphery of the robotic arm, as well as an image acquisition device mounted at the working end of the robotic arm. With the smoking path simulation system, an action path of smoking a cigarette by a consumer may be simulated, and consistency of the simulated action paths may be guaranteed, thus effectively improving precision of test of indexes of a cigarette-combustion performance, such as cigarette-combustion ash integration characteristics, or the like.