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Mak, Robin (author), Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Differential mechanisms are remarkable mechanical elements that are widely utilized in various systems; nevertheless, conventional differential mechanisms are heavy and difficult to use in applications with limited design space. This paper presents a curved differential mechanism that utilizes a lightweight, compliant structure. This...journal article 2024
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van der Burgh, B.J. (author), Filius, S.J. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Harlaar, J. (author)Orthotic wrist supports will be beneficial for people with muscular weakness to keep their hand in a neutral rest position and prevent potential wrist contractures. Compensating the weight of the hands is complex since the level of support depends on both wrist and forearm orientations. To explore simplified approaches, two different weight...journal article 2024
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author), Radaelli, G. (author)Compliant mechanisms have the potential to be utilized in numerous applications where the use of conventional mechanisms is unfeasible. These mechanisms have inherent stiffness in their range of motion as they gain their mobility from elastic deformations of elements. In most systems, however, complete control over the elasticity is desired....journal article 2024
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Kok, Sjaak (author), Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author)Elastic structures that can deflect without springback, known as neutrally stable structures, form a remarkable group within their field, since they require the energetic state to remain unchanged during elastic deformation. Several examples in the literature obtain this state of neutral stability by the application of pre-stress, either as a...journal article 2023
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Radaelli, G. (author), Vroom, R.W. (author), Cool, Jan C. (author), Tuijthof, Gabriëlle J.M. (author)Het boek Werktuigkundige Systemen is een compacte inleiding op het systeemdenken in de werktuigbouwkunde, met nadruk op inzicht en grafische methoden, gelardeerd met prikkelende werkingsprincipes en constructie-elementen. Velen merken dat ze nog lang nadat ze het vak gedaan hebben dit boek als naslagwerk gebruiken en het steeds meer gaan...book 2023
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author), Radaelli, G. (author)Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT) can serve as subsystems for a variety of machineries and robotic systems. A compliant CVT mechanism based on the warping of twisting beams is presented here. The design works based on the demonstrated fact that the twist on one side of a beam can be transferred via sectional warping and propagate...journal article 2023
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van der Lans, Daan (author), Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author)This paper presents a novel shape morphing concept, which exploits neutral stability to achieve reversible shape morphing. The concept is based on actively changing the material stiffness on a local level in order to perturb the neutral stability and thus induce the shell to deform. This concept is realized by embedding Ni-Ti wires in a...journal article 2023
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)A cantilevered rod's endpoint has a symmetric stiffness profile throughout its range of motion. Generally, this is not the case for spatially curved compliant beams, particularly if they are asymmetric, i.e., their fixation is not in the symmetry plane of their endpoint operating field. This paper discusses a technique for obtaining symmetric...journal article 2023
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Mak, Robin (author), Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Differential mechanisms are remarkable mechanical elements that are widely utilized in various systems; nevertheless, conventional differential mechanisms are heavy and difficult to use in applications with limited design space. In this paper, a curved lightweight compliant type of differential mechanism is presented. This mechanism acquires...conference paper 2022
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), van de Sande, W.W.P.J. (author), van Ostayen, R.A.J. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Compliant mechanisms (CM) with adaptive stiffness have been widely used in robotics and machine design applications. This paper proposes adapting the endpoint stiffness of a spatially curved compliant beam using a movable torsional stiffener and a new graphical characterization method for the resulting anisotropic stiffness of the endpoint...journal article 2022
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Kok, Sjaak (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Amoozandeh, A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Elastic neutral stability in compliant mechanisms is a remarkable appearance since it requires the energetic state of the structure to remain unchanged during a deformation mode. Several examples in literature require either plastic deformation or external constraints to be enforced to obtain a state of pre-stress and often require the use of...journal article 2021
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Joosten, Sebastiaan (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Vallery, H. (author)Inspired by phenomena in the plant world, a meteoro-sensitive rotational actuator is developed. The design uses a hygro-active shell, whose water-based swelling is restricted at selective locations to form a helicoid structure. The influence of geometrical parameters on the performance is investigated using a numerical analysis of various...journal article 2021
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Radaelli, G. (author)Mechanisms that consist of many elements and are potentially small sized, benefit from kinematic elementary units like revolute joints that are compliant and monolithic, and therefore could be produced without need for assembly. We present a novel concept of a compliant revolute joint that features low axis drift, high support stiffness and a...journal article 2021
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)A design tool for passive wrist support using compliant spatial beams as gravity balancer is presented. The aim of this assistive device is to reduce required effort for pronation-supination and flexion-extension by 70% to help patients with muscular weakness keeping their hand’s posture and doing daily tasks, while the forearm is rested. To...conference paper 2021
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Amoozandeh, A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)A method to achieve symmetric kinetostatic behaviour in an extensive working range at the endpoint of an asymmetric spatial beam, using cross-section optimization, is presented. The objective function of the optimization is defined as expanding the beam working range to the desired region, simultaneously maximizing symmetric behaviour in it....book chapter 2021
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Schreurs, K. W.A. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Alijani, F. (author)Compliant shape-preserving mechanisms fill a small niche within the established research field of compliant mechanisms. To date no report exists on a compliant shape-preserving ring, even though these mechanisms can give rise to a multitude of practical applications. They can essentially act as novel sealing mechanisms, compliant grippers or...journal article 2020
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Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)This work is dedicated to the study of the large-displacement behaviour of a spiral spring. Parameters that influence the local torsion stiffness of the beam that constitutes the spiral are varied and their effect is studied. Cross-sectional shape, orthotropic material orientation and prestress are the three classes of parameters that are...journal article 2018
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Radaelli, G. (author)In this dissertation a collection of concepts to synthesise nonlinear springs is presented. Such springs can be useful in various application domains where, e.g., multi-stability or static balancing is desired. These behaviors are often sought to alleviate the effort required for actuation. The explored concepts are presented by showing the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Rommers, J. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Origami is generally associated with decorative art, not the engineering<br/>world. For some time now, however, engineers have been using the gigantic<br/>database of origami folding patterns as inspiration for designing deployable<br/>mechanisms that can be fabricated efficiently from a flat sheet material.<br/>Most of these mechanisms do not...journal article 2017
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Delissen, A.A.T.M. (author), Radaelli, G. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)A zero free length (ZFL) spring is a spring with special properties, which is commonly used in static balancing. Existing methods to create ZFL springs all have their specific drawbacks, which rises to the need of a new method to create such a spring. A method is proposed to design planar ZFL springs with specified stiffness (250–750 N/m)...journal article 2017
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