Compliant mechanism synthesis for shape-change applications: Preliminary results

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4693, Issue , 2002, Pages 161-172

  Lu, Kerr Jia ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive structures; Compliant mechanisms; Genetic algorithm; Shape change

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEFORMATION; DRAG; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; WINGS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES;

EID: 0036028433     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475218     Document Type: Article

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