The objective of the present work is to determine the conditions that have to be satisfied for a planetary gear train of one degree of freedom to be self-locking. All planetary gear trains of up to six members are considered. As a result, we show the constructional solutions of planetary gear trains exhibiting self-locking. Unlike other studies, the self-locking conditions are obtained systematically from the analytical expression for the product of the efficiency of a given train by the efficiency of the train resulting from interchanging its input and output axes. Finally, a proof is given of an approximate relationship between these two efficiencies.
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