Analysis of off-axis performance of compliant mechanisms with applications to mobile millirobot design

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2770-2776

  Hoover, A M ^a   Fearing, R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISM; EQUIVALENT MECHANISMS; FLEXURE ELEMENT; GLOBAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; OFF-AXIS; PERFORMANCE METRICES; RIGID LINKS; SARRUS LINKAGES; STIFFNESS PROPERTIES;

COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 76249086532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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