Teruaki HIDAKA
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About
Teruaki Hidaka is a mechanical engineering researcher whose career has been devoted to understanding the dynamic behavior and precision performance of advanced gear systems used in industrial robotics and precision machinery. His most significant contributions center on K-H-V type planetary gears with cycloid profiles, explored through a landmark three-part series published in 1994. These studies — which together have accumulated over 75 citations — systematically developed analytical methods for quantifying rotational transmission error, investigated how manufacturing and assembly tolerances propagate through gear trains, and examined the mutual interactions of elemental errors on overall transmission performance. This body of work provided engineers with rigorous theoretical tools to minimize positioning inaccuracies in compact, high-reduction gear systems increasingly demanded by robotics applications. Earlier research, dating to the late 1980s, addressed torsional vibration phenomena arising from strain wave (harmonic drive) gearings in robot systems, combining experimental observation with equivalent vibration modeling to explain resonance behavior at critical rotational speeds. Hidaka also contributed foundational analysis of 2K-H planetary gear assemblies, examining floating sun gear displacement under manufacturing imperfections. Taken together, his research has meaningfully advanced the precision design and error analysis of the specialized gear mechanisms that underpin modern robotic and automated systems.
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- 6Torsional vibration in the robot due to wave gears.3 citations · 1986