Design of a compliant environmentally interactive snake-like manipulator

In this master thesis a hyper redudant manipulator will be designed. The hyper redundant manipulator has the charactaristics of being both underactuated and compliant.

Design for specified stiffness in precision engineering

Precision engineering impacts every one, every day, by enabling the fabrication techniques and functions required for 21st technological revolutions. Various applications, from display technologies to sensor systems to optical networks make use of so called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Motions at micro level with monolithic structures...

Design of a zero stiffness six degrees of freedom compliant precision stage

This paper presents the first zero stiffness six degrees of freedom (DoF) compliant precision stage. To deal with problems like backlash, friction and lubrication for performing ultra-precise positioning in a vacuum environment, a novel compliant structure is proposed. All six degrees of freedom are statically balanced (i.e. near zero stiffness)...