Mechanical and control-oriented design of a monolithic piezoelectric microgripper using a new topological optimization method

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-45

  Grossard, Mathieu ^a,b   Rotinat Libersa, Christine ^b   Chaillet, Nicolas ^a   Boukallel, Mehdi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Actuator design; Balanced gramian; Compliant mechanisms; Controllability; Microgripper; Microrobotics; Observability; Piezoelectricity; Topology optimization; Vibrations control

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLABILITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GRIPPERS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; MICROACTUATORS; OBSERVABILITY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PYROELECTRICITY; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ACTUATOR DESIGN; BALANCED GRAMIAN; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; MICROGRIPPER; MICROROBOTICS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; VIBRATIONS CONTROL;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 61549122603     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.2003437     Document Type: Article

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