An intrinsic geometric framework for the building block synthesis of single point compliant mechanisms

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Krishnan, Girish ^a   Kim, Charles ^b   Kota, Sridhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCK SYNTHESIS; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPLIANT MECHANISM; GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; MATRIX; PARALLEL CONCATENATION; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT; SERIAL CONCATENATION; SINGLE POINT; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; UNIQUE POINTS;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; TURBO CODES;

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 78651595995     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002513     Document Type: Article

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