A three-DOF compliant micromotion stage with flexure hinges

Industrial Robot

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-361

  Lu, Tien Fu ^a   Handley, Daniel C ^a   Yong, Yuen Kuan ^a   Eales, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actuators; Microcontrollers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HINGES; KINEMATICS; MICROACTUATORS; MICROCONTROLLERS; MOTION CONTROL;

FLEXURE HINGES; MICROMOTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042830852     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910410541873     Document Type: Article

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