An Innovative Scheme for Reduction of Power Requirement of Electromechanical Servo Drive System Used in Heavy Load Weapon System Articulation

In this paper an Innovative scheme for reduction of Power Requirement of Electromechanical Servo Drive used in heavy load weapon system articulation is presented. An electromechanical servo drive system is used for raising and lowering of heavy load weapon system for positioning it at predefined angle. Power requirement of this Servo Drive is very large due to heavy load. To reduce the power and torque requirement an innovative scheme with torsion bar is used. Torsion bar stores energy during lowering of load and releases it during raising the load. In this paper, application and design of torsion bar scheme is discussed which is used in a prestigious weapon system program.