Compliant Mechanisms
Compliant space mechanisms: a new frontier for compliant mechanisms
... Abstract. Compliant mechanisms o ff er distinct advantages for use in space that can address many of the issues encountered with current rigid-link space ...mechanisms. Compliant space ...
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Quasi-static modelling of compliant mechanisms: application to a 2-DOF underactuated finger
... Compliant mechanisms, i.e., mechanisms built with elastic joints, o ff er several advantages compared to conventional mechanisms: reduction of wear, clearance and backlash, compactness, no ...
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Topology synthesis of multi-input-multi-output compliant mechanisms.
... The Sequential Element Rejection and Admission method used in this work to achieve the optimum design has demonstrated to be a robust and versatile technique to be applied to the design of compliant ...
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Basic principles and aims of model order reduction in compliant mechanisms
... Received: 25 February 2011 – Revised: 23 May 2011 – Accepted: 26 July 2011 – Published: 17 October 2011 Abstract. Model order reduction appears to be beneficial for the synthesis and simulation of compliant mech- ...
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Symmetric Equations for Evaluating Maximum Torsion Stress of Rectangular Beams in Compliant Mechanisms
... ASME Mechanisms & Robotics ...of Mechanisms and Robotics, past chair of the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee, past co‑chair of the ASME International Design Engi‑ neering Technical ...
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Output decoupling property of planar flexure-based compliant mechanisms with symmetric configuration
... Flexure-based compliant mechanisms, which have advan- tages of no friction, no backlash, compact and monolithic structure, and ease of fabrication, are usually used as micro- positioning stages (Acer and ...
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Topology synthesis of multi-material compliant mechanisms with a Sequential Element Rejection and Admission method
... Compliant mechanisms can be defined as monolitic structures that rely on its own elastic deformation to achieve force and motion transmission ...as compliant mechanisms etched out of a single ...
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Topological and Shape Optimization of Flexure Hinges for Designing Compliant Mechanisms Using the Level Set Method
... designing compliant mechanisms that offers unique possibilities in a wide range of application fields in which high positioning accuracy is ...for compliant mechanism design and obtain better designs ...
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A modified pseudo-rigid-body modeling approach for compliant mechanisms with fixed-guided beam flexures
... for compliant mechanisms with fixed-guided beam flexures by considering the nonlinear effects of center-shifting and ...fixed-guided compliant beam is modeled as a pair of fixed-free compliant ...
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Compliant mechanisms for an active cardiac stabilizer: lessons and new requirements in the design of a novel surgical tool
... of compliant mechanisms for a new surgical tool, an active cardiac stabilizer, are ...of compliant mechanisms in the design of the stabilizer is demonstrated with in vivo experimental ...
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Synthesis of PR-/RP-chain-based compliant mechanisms – design of applications exploiting fibre reinforced material characteristics
... Abstract. Compliant mechanisms have several advantages, especially their smaller number of elements and therefore less movable ...-based compliant linkages. More compact compliant linkages can ...
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Robust design of large-displacement compliant mechanisms
... Fig. 4. The three projections are called eroded, intermedi- ate and dilated (Sigmund, 2009; Wang et al., 2011). If the intermediate projection is considered to be the reference de- sign, uniform over-etching error can be ...
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Identifying links between origami and compliant mechanisms
... are compliant mechanisms. These compliant mechanisms, when having a flat initial state and motion emerging out of the fabrication plane, are classified as lamina emergent mechanisms ...
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DAS-2D: a concept design tool for compliant mechanisms
... Abstract. Compliant mechanisms utilize the deformation of the elastic members to achieve the desired ...of compliant mechanisms rely on several commercial dynamics and finite ele- ment ...
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On mechanical properties of planar flexure hinges of compliant mechanisms
... applications, compliant mechanisms (CM) have become more popular in the last years competing against rigid body systems con- nected by conventional pin ...
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Fabrication of compliant mechanisms on the mesoscale
... The collaboration between mechanical design and materials science fabrication has been described within the context of two mesoscale devices: a surgical forceps instrument, and C3M device. The possible fabrication ...
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Building block method: a bottom-up modular synthesis methodology for distributed compliant mechanisms
... elastic mechanisms is known as pseudo-rigid body ...yields mechanisms that are com- posed of rigid members and thin flexures (Saxena and Anan- thasuresh, ...
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On understanding of design problem formulation for compliant mechanisms through topology optimization
... With the similar explanation for the point flexure problem, Cardoso and Fonseca (2004) stated that strain energy should not be minimized since a distributed compliant mechanism must spend a part of the input ...
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Novel compliant wiper mechanism
... ant mechanisms (Howell, ...of compliant mechanisms, such as low cost, light weight, fewer parts, little or no maintenance requirement, less wear and noise, and high ...spring. Compliant ...
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Study of Compliant Mechanisam
... and compliant mechanisms for micro ...the compliant mechanism is the most promising technology which can achieve high accuracy (sub-nanometer) of all four kinds of motion ...
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