LXRobotics - Software: hydraulic cylinder design tool

Designers of a hydraulic actuation system need to calculate the performance characteristics of a hydraulic cylinder such as the cylinder forces excerted during push and pull given pre-defined system characteristics, such as the hydraulic pressure delivered by the hydraulic systems pump.

While the mathematical equations underlying these calculations are straightforward and can be easily implemented within a spreadsheet application having a small GTK-based GUI tool at hand for quick evaluations of different cylinder parameters can be advantageous.

How-to install

Here’s how to download and install our Linux-exclusive tool for hydraulic cylinder design:

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wget https://assets.lxrobotics.com/tools/lxrhct/latest -O lxrhct.AppImage
chmod +x lxrhct.AppImage
./lxrhct.AppImage

Changelog

Version	Changelog	MD5
v0.1.0	Initial release.	907bb81f8249b0cf5bd9da32244f8d86
v0.2.0	Update cylinder graphic for better matching tooling textual description.	e7edc0c63dfba722a7455da3b5338574
v0.3.0	Use linuxdeploy to eliminate need for installing external dependencies.	981ce5b20e2728d3875944e4b4fe584a

License

This software is released under the terms of the BSD-3 license.

Software: hydraulic cylinder design tool

Alexander Entinger is a highly experienced embedded engineer with a focus on robotic systems. By providing hard-won expertise designing embedded systems for real-world embedded applications Alexander Entinger is helping companies developing robotic systems or components for robotic systems to achieve their desired business outcomes.