Prof. dr. ir. Bram Vanderborght obtained his doctorate from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2007. He performed research at JRL lab in AIST, Tsukuba (Japan) and did postdoctoral research at the Italian Institute of Technology. Since 2009, he has been a professor at VUB. He had an ERC starting grant and is currently coordinating three EU projects on smart and self-healing materials for soft robots. His research interests are human-robot collaboration for applications for health and manufacturing like exoskeletons, prostheses, social robots, drones and cobots. He is affiliated to the Interuniversity Microelectronics Institute (IMEC), Belgium, as scientific collaborator.
Today, gearboxes are inevitable in numerous applications requiring high power density including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cranes, robotics, etc. A combination of high-ratio gearboxes with high-speed, low-torque motors is often used to achieve high power density. Planetary gear trains (PGTs) help achieve a high gear ratio in a compact arrangement. Several configurations of planetary gears are widely studied in this article where the gear profiles used in these studies are primarily involute.
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