A rotational joint for shape morphing space truss structures

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1277-1284

  Sofla, A Y N ^a   Elzey, D M ^a   Wadley, H N G ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CONSTRAINED JOINT MECHANISM; PHYSICAL INTERFERENCE; PIVOT ROTATION ANGLE; SHAPE MORPHING;

TRUSSES;

EID: 34547475549     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/4/040     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Connor J J 1976 Analysis of Structural Member Systems (New York: The Ronald Press Company)
2. Maxwell J C 1864 On the calculation of the equilibrium and stiffness of frames Phil. Mag. 27 294
3. Pellegrino S and Calladine C R 1986 Matrix analysis of statically and kinematically indeterminate frameworks Int. J. Solids Struct. 22 409-28
4. Hutchinson R G, Wicks N, Evans A G, Fleck N A and Hutchinson J W 2003 Kagome plate structures for actuation Int. J. Solids Struct. 40 6969-80
5. Padmanabhan B, Arun V and Reinholtz C F 1992 Closed form inverse kinematic analysis of variable-geometry truss manipulators ASME J. Mech. Des. 114 438-43
6. Hornett H C 1994 Joint for a variable geometry truss and method of constructing same Patent Application LAR-15136-1 Serial No. 08/325,723 (Nasa Langley Research Center)
7. McCarthy J M 2000 Geometric Design of Linkages (New York: Springer)
8. Zanganeh K E and Angeles J 1994 Instantaneous kinematics and design of a novel redundant parallel manipulator Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (San Diego, CA) pp3043-8
9. Hamlin G J and Snaderson A C 1998 Tetrobot: A Modular Approach to Reconfigurable Parallel Robotics (Norwell, MA: Kluwer)
10. Bosscher P and Ebbert-Uphoff I 2003 A novel mechanism for implementing multiple collocated spherical joints Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (Taipei, Taiwan) pp336-41
11. Song S, Kwon D and Kim W S 2001 Spherical joint for coupling three or more links together at one point US Patent Application 20010002964
12. Denavit J and Hartenberg R S 1955 A kinematic notation for lower-pair mechanisms based on matrices ASME J. Appl. Mech. 22 215-21