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Ten Pas, S. (author)
Offshore structures, like windmills and oil or gas platforms, require regular maintenance and operators to continue working. Rough seas and weather conditions caused a problem to get people on and off these offshore structures until in 2009 Ampelmann came with a solution to safely transfer people offshore. This people transfer is done by means...
master thesis 2017
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Kortleve, J.P. (author)
From the results it can be concluded that a fixed and a free voice-coil actuated impact drive mechanism can be used as a positioning system in a precision environment, such as the semiconductor industry and extreme large telescopes, to position an object within 1 nanometer and hold the position passively stable within 10nm/hr. The empirically...
master thesis 2017
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Overwijk, T.T. (author)
Static balancing is a technique to create static equilibrium in a mechanism for any configuration. Auxiliary links and many springs are usually added to achieve static balance for spatial parallel mechanisms. This increases inertia and complexity of the system. This paper first presents a theoretically perfect static balancing solution for a...
master thesis 2017
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Hulsebos, M. (author)
With electron beam lithography, a cutting edge technology has been developed that might introduce new possibilities in the design of chips. The word "might" has been used here because e-beam lithography is not yet available for the mass production market. One of the bottlenecks in the development of e-beam lithography is the positioning...
master thesis 2017
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Nijssen, J.P.A. (author)
master thesis 2017
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Marinangeli, L. (author)
In the past decades research on Active Vibration Control (AVC) has found increasing interest in control of flexible thin-walled structures, mainly made of new advanced materials such as composite carbon fibre. These types of composite structures combine high stiffness with good flexibility in achieving complex shapes, and are mostly used in...
master thesis 2016
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Gevers, L.T.M. (author)
Topology optimization is a bio-inspired optimization method based on the growth of bones. With this method, the optimal material distribution with the minimal amount of material for a product can be defined. This could help engineers to create innovative lightweight designs and get rid of benchmark and pervious design on which current designs...
master thesis 2016
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Jadhao, K.S. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Zhang, M. (author)
Motion simulators have increasingly been applied for research purposes due to their large motion capabilities and short response time. Key applications are including vehicle simulation, experiments on control behavior in virtual environments and studies into human self-motion perception. To maintain a good dynamic capability, the known motion...
master thesis 2016
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Delissen, A.A.T.M. (author)
A lot of scientific effort is put into changing mechanical material properties by creating micro-structural architectures instead of chemical composition. This results in meta-materials, which are future materials tuned to the needs of the user. To change the Poisson’s ratio and Young’s modulus, most current designs exploit mechanisms and hinges...
master thesis 2016
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Van Zoest, W.P. (author)
In the thesis a Compliant Constant Energy Mechanism(CCEM) has been designed which converts a variable input torque to a constant output torque. A compliant mechanism functions by exploiting the natural elasticity of a material, rather than avoiding it. This allows for the CCEM to have its functionality integrated in to a single part and makes it...
master thesis 2016
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Van Kempen, R.B. (author)
Energy harvesting is the process by which energy is derived from environmental vibrations in order to power local electronic systems . The technology gets rid of the need for electrical wires or batteries in a wide range of sensor and communication networks. This work tackles the three most challenging aspects in the field of vibration energy...
master thesis 2016
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Robertson, P.D. (author)
Reconfigurable mechanisms are a relatively recent contribution to the field of mechanism design and authors have only just been producing real-life applications of these mechanisms. This paper builds on the application of two categories of reconfigurable mechanisms by applying a generalised static balancing theory suggested in a previous review...
master thesis 2016
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De Vree, W.K. (author)
This project was a cooperation between the TUDelft and Hittech. Hittech is a Dutch company that want’s to explore the latest technologies. The relative new techniques of additive manufacturing are becoming more mature and beneficial for businesses. One of the latest developments is Direct Metal Laser Sintering of titanium-alloy: Ti-6Al-4V, a...
master thesis 2016
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Kuppens, P.R. (author)
Robots usually do a single job and would perform better when their mechanical structure is particularly designed for their designated task. However, manually designing robots with mechanical properties that implicitly compute and execute a specific task is very hard and time consuming. To assist designers, a platform that automatically designs...
master thesis 2016
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Houwers, H.W.R. (author)
Background: Compliant mechanisms have the advantage of low weight, no lubrication, no wear and no friction. These are good properties for a mechanical transmission. But large range of motion (ROM) in compliant mechanisms is a challenge. If the ends of a long shell with only a transverse curvature are connected, a two-fold closed-loop tape spring...
master thesis 2016
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Wessels, J. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Alkisaei, H. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Jainandunsing, S.I. (author)
In this master thesis a hyper redudant manipulator will be designed. The hyper redundant manipulator has the charactaristics of being both underactuated and compliant.
master thesis 2015
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Van Bracht, S. (author)
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) often require tuning to correct for fabrication errors such as changed dimensions or to adapt for a different scenario such as changed temperature. To prevent continuous power consumption for maintaining system behavior, a locking system can be added which does not require any power during operation. A new...
master thesis 2015
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