Design and development of a low-cost flexure-based hand-held mechanism for micromanipulation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4350-4355

  Tan, U Xuan ^a   Latt, Win Tun ^a   Shee, Cheng Yap ^a   Ang, Wei Tech ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flexure joints; Medical robotics; Micromanipulator; Parallel mechanism; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY ERROR; BALL JOINTS; COMPLEX DESIGNS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FLEXURE JOINTS; FLEXURE-BASED MECHANISM; MACHINING METHODS; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; MICRO MANIPULATION; NON-EXISTENCE; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; PARALLEL MECHANISM; SERIAL MECHANISM; TRACKING PERFORMANCE;

CELL MEMBRANES; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; MACHINING; MECHANISMS; MICROMANIPULATORS; NEEDLES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70350352940     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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