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Abhinandan Jain¹

¹Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109.

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Area of Science:

Mechanical Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Graph Theory

Background:

Multibody dynamics relies on complex analytical results and computational algorithms.
Existing methods often require specific assumptions about system properties.
A unified mathematical foundation for these methods is lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unifying graph theory framework for multibody dynamics.
To demonstrate that key analytical and computational aspects are consequences of structural properties.
To identify abstract graph theoretic properties of spatial operator techniques.

Main Methods:

Utilizing graph adjacency matrices and generalizing them to block-weighted adjacency (BWA) matrices and their 1-resolvents.
Showing previously developed spatial operators as special cases of BWA matrices and their 1-resolvents.
Analyzing topology-induced sparsity structures of operators and mass matrices using graph theory.

Main Results:

Established BWA matrices and their 1-resolvents as a unifying framework for spatial operators.
Demonstrated that spatial kernel operators (SKO) and spatial propagation operators (SPO) are specializations of BWA matrices.
Showcased the applicability to serial and tree topology multibody systems, with extensions to deformable links.

Conclusions:

Graph theory provides fundamental insights into the mathematical structure of multibody dynamics.
The developed framework simplifies analysis and algorithm development by relying on structural properties.
This work lays the groundwork for advanced analytical and computational techniques in multibody system modeling.