Synthesis of compliant multistable mechanisms through use of a single bistable mechanism

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Guimin ^a   Gou, Yanjie ^a   Zhang, Aimei ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bistability; compliant mechanism; multistability

Indexed keywords

MECHANISMS;

BI-STABILITY; BISTABLE MECHANISMS; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; MULTISTABILITY; MULTISTABLE; NEW APPROACHES; POWER INPUT; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM; SWITCH VALVES;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 80051905689     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004543     Document Type: Article

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