... Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee of ASME for publication in the J ournal of M echanisms and R obotics . 05 09 2022 19 11 2022 23 11 2022 17 01 2023 compliant mechanism dynamic characteristics natural frequency reliability dynamics National...

... and R obotics . 28 09 2020 22 01 2021 26 01 2021 09 04 2021 ankle rehab robot compliant mechanism ankle rehabilitation medical robotics The ankle is a complex joint connecting the leg region of the lower limb to the foot and allows for daily activities like...

...Jorge A. Franco; Juan A. Gallego; Just L. Herder A design approach for the quasi-static balancing of four-bar linkages with torsion springs is proposed. Such an approach is useful in the design of quasi-statically balanced fully compliant mechanisms by tuning the stiffness of the pseudo-rigid-body...

... 2020 31 07 2020 07 10 2020 compliant mechanism mechanism design parallel kinematic In a previous paper [ 1 ], we reported the design and analysis of a novel parallel-kinematic flexure mechanism, shown in Fig. 1 , that provides highly decoupled motions along the three...

...Zeeshan Qaiser; Shane Johnson Compliant mechanisms are typically designed for varying stiffness from nearly zero to rigid. However, targeted design for fine-tuning within an application's sensitive range of stiffness remains more desirable for practical implementation in accurate loading...

...Kejia Kong; Guimin Chen; Guangbo Hao This paper presents kinetostatic modeling of a compliant mechanism for translational motion. This mechanism arranges all compliant members in an inverted way, which enables the robustness against beam buckling due to the heavy payload. To enable quick design...

...Miao Yang; Zhijiang Du; Wei Dong; Lining Sun Flexure pivots are frequently applied in long stroke compliant mechanisms to transmit motion continuously. To improve the motion accuracy, a kind of variable thickness flexure pivot (VTFP) is proposed in this paper. A nonlinear beam element is proposed...

...-approval test [ 7 ]. suspension alignment parameter flexible link syntheses compliant mechanism This paper investigates an independent suspension with invariable alignment parameters by using flexible links of anisotropic elasticity. It focuses on the synthesis of elasticity of compliant...

...Hong Zhou; Avinash R. Mandala The improved quadrilateral discretization model for the topology optimization of compliant mechanisms is introduced in this paper. The design domain is discretized into quadrilateral design cells and each quadrilateral design cell is further subdivided into triangular...

...) was developed using a compliant mechanism analysis approach. The global moment-rotation response, relative motion, and local moment-rotation response of a cadaveric specimen were determined through experimental testing under three conditions: intact, fused, and implanted with a prototype total disc replacement...

... ( 3 ), pp. 576 – 580 . 10.1115/1.2919228 7 Loncaric , J. , 1985 , “ Geometrical Analysis of Compliant Mechanisms in Robotics ,” Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 8 Loncaric , J. , 1987 , “ Normal Forms of Stiffness and Compliance Matrices ,” IEEE J. Rob. Autom...

...Karin Hoetmer; Geoffrey Woo; Charles Kim; Just Herder In some applications, nonconstant energy storage in the flexible segments of compliant mechanisms is undesired, particularly when high efficiency or high-fidelity force feedback is required. In these cases, the principle of static balancing can...

...Larry L. Howell; Christopher M. DiBiasio; Michael A. Cullinan; Robert M. Panas; Martin L. Culpepper Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may be used to create nanoscale compliant mechanisms that possess large ranges of motion relative to their device size. Many macroscale compliant mechanisms contain compliant...