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A Review on Compliant Joints and Rigid-Body Constant Velocity Universal Joints Toward the Design of Compliant Homokinetic Couplings
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This article is published in Journal of Mechanical Design.The article was published on 2015-03-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compliant mechanism & Rigid body.read more
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Misalignment Compensation for Full Human-Exoskeleton Kinematic Compatibility: State of the Art and Evaluation
Matthias B. Näf,Karen Junius,Marco Rossini,Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero,Bram Vanderborght,Dirk Lefeber +5 more
TL;DR: An extensive overview of different misalignment compensation strategies existing in the literature is presented, organized in nine categories, evaluated and discussed around the exoskeleton's application domain and its specific requirements and needs.
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Additive manufacturing of non-assembly mechanisms
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and limitations of additive manufacturing (AM) for non-assembly fabrication of complex and multi-articulated mechanisms have been discussed, and a discussion of the major shortcomings found in current nonassembly mechanisms fabricated by AM is presented.
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Compliance Synthesis of CSFH MEMS-Based Microgrippers
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Building block based spatial topology synthesis method for large stroke flexure hinges
TL;DR: In this article, a new building block based spatial topology optimization method is presented for optimizing large stroke flexure hinges, which consists of a layout variation strategy based on a building block approach combined with shape optimization to obtain the optimal design tuned for a specific application.
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Review on thermal and mechanical challenges in the development of deployable space optics
TL;DR: The thermomechanical challenges that should be taken into consideration when designing optical space systems, as well as 14 projects proposed to address them, are compiled.
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Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges
TL;DR: The second edition of Compliant Mechanisms: Design of Flexure Hinges as mentioned in this paper provides practical answers to the design and analysis of devices that incorporate flexible hinges by means of a bottom-up compliance (flexibility) approach.
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Geometric Design of Linkages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an algebraic synthesis of spherical chains for solving constraint equations in the plane, based on the analysis of Spherical linkages and spherical trigonometry.
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Flexures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms
TL;DR: Flexure Design: Advantages and Disadvantages of Flexures as discussed by the authors The main advantages and disadvantages of flexible design are: Basic Elasticity. Fatigue. Vibrations and Natural Frequencies of Continuous Systems.