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Watt's linkage

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C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Quentin Christian Becker, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Davide Pellis

We introduce a computational pipeline for simulating and designing C-shells, a new class of planar-to-spatial deployable linkage structures. A C-shell is composed of curved flexible beams connected at rotational joints that can be assembled in a stress-fre ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2023

Rectilinear translation four-bar flexure mechanism based on four Remote Center Compliance pivots

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Quentin Gubler

This paper presents a novel planar four-bar linkage compliant mechanism (called 4-RCC) based on four flexure-based Remote Center of Compliance (RCC) pivots. With particular configurations and dimensions, the beam shortening of the RCC pivots can compensate ...

euspen2022

From kirigami to hydrogels: a tutorial on designing conformally transformable surfaces

Yingying Ren, Tian Chen

Elastic surfaces that morph between multiple geometrical configurations are of significant engineering value, with applications ranging from the deployment of space-based PV arrays, the erection of temporary shelters, and the realization of flexible displa ...

2023

Statically and dynamically balanced oscillator based on Watt's linkage

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

We present a new mechanical oscillator architecture that can be made insensitive to linear and angular accelerations while keeping constant oscillation frequency. The oscillator has the kinematics of a Watt linkage, so we call it a Watt oscillator. In orde ...

EUSPEN2020

Soft pneumatic actuator-driven origami-inspired modular robotic ‘‘pneumagami’’

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Özdemir Can Kara

This article presents a new modular robotic platform for enabling reconfigurable, actively controlled, high-degree-of-freedom (high-DoF) systems with compact form factor. The robotic modules exploit the advantages of origami-inspired construction methods a ...

SAGE Publications2021

A plane linkage and its tessellation for deployable structure

Chen Yan, Huijuan Feng

Deployable structures are widely used in space applications such as solar arrays and antennas. Recently, inspired by origami, more deployable structures have been developed. This paper outlined a novel design scheme for deployable structures by taking a pl ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Design, analysis, testing and applications of two-body and three-body kinematic mounts

Johannes Richard Cornelis Geerit Kruis

Kinematic couplings are used when two rigid bodies need to be repeatedly and accurately positioned with respect to each other. They allow for sub-micron positioning repeatability by suppressing play and reducing strains in the bodies. Typical applications ...

EPFL2016

Parallel Inverse Kinematics for Multithreaded Architectures

Ronan Boulic, Benoît Le Callennec, Mentar Mahmudi, Pawan Kumar Harish

In this article, we present a parallel prioritized Jacobian-based inverse kinematics algorithm for multithreaded architectures. We solve damped least squares inverse kinematics using a parallel line search by identifying and sampling critical input paramet ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

Open innovation research and e-government: clarifying the connections between two fields

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

This paper investigates the linkages and influences between the open innovation paradigm and e-government research. To this end, an analysis of the e-government literature is carried out to understand how open innovation has been interpreted by e-governmen ...

Luiss University Press2015

Development and integration of high straightness flexure guiding mechanisms dedicated to the METAS watt balance Mark II

Reymond Clavel, Florent Cosandier

There is a firm will in the metrology community to redefine the kilogram in the International System of units by linking it to a fundamental physical constant. The watt balance is a promising way to link the mass unit to the Planck constant h. At the Feder ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Return mobility and scientific productivity of researchers working abroad: The role of home country linkages

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

Through an analysis of 497 foreign researchers in Italy and Portugal we verify the impact of home linkages on return mobility choices and scientific productivity. We consider the presence of several different types of linkages of the researchers working ab ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Biaxial texture development in aluminum nitride layers during off-axis sputter deposition

Paul Muralt

Polycrystalline aluminum nitride (AlN) layers were deposited by pulsed-dc reactive magnetron sputtering from a variable deposition angle alpha = 0 degrees-84 degrees in 5 mTorr pure N-2 at room temperature. X-ray diffraction pole figure analyses show that ...

American Vacuum Society2012

Focusing System Flexure-Mechanism for the Close-Up Imager Instrument of the ExoMars Rover

Simon Nessim Henein, Philippe Schwab

This paper presents the design of a flexure based focusing system, part of the Close-Up Imager (CLUPI) instrument which is planned to be integrated on the future ExoMars NASA-ESA Mars Rover to be launched in 2018. Various design trade-offs are discussed, i ...

2012

Concept of Modular Kinematics to Design Ultra-high Precision Parallel Robots

Murielle Richard

Miniaturisation will be the key challenge for the next decade in numerous industrial fields, such as microelectronics, optics and biomedical engineering. Although most of their products already achieve footprints of some square millimeters, the trend towar ...

EPFL2012

Modularity and parallel kinematics: an original design methodology applied to high precision

Reymond Clavel, Murielle Richard

This paper introduces a new methodology to design modular industrial ultra-high precision robots; it aims at significantly reducing both the complexity of their design and their development time. This modular concept can be considered as a robotic Lego®, w ...

World Scientific2011

Dionis: A novel remote-center-of-motion parallel manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Hannes Bleuler, Reymond Clavel, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos Carreras

The large volume and reduced dexterity of current surgical robotic systems are factors that restrict their effective performance. To improve the usefulness of surgical robots in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), a compact and accurate positioning mechanism ...

Ios Press2011

Clinical and genetic investigation of a large Tunisian family with complete achromatopsia: identification of a new nonsense mutation in GNAT2 gene

Complete achromatopsia is a rare autosomal recessive disease associated with CNGA3, CNGB3, GNAT2 and PDE6C mutations. This retinal disorder is characterized by complete loss of color discrimination due to the absence or alteration of the cones function. Th ...

2011

PRIGO: Parallel Robotics Inspired Goniometer for Protein Crystallography

Simon Nessim Henein, Jean-Marc Breguet

This paper presents a novel goniometer which is designed for use with X-ray diffraction analysis in protein crystallography. The PRIGO (Parallel Robotics Inspired Goniometer) is a 6 degree of freedom positioning device, allowing 3 translations (x, y, z) an ...

2009

Dynamics and Control of 2D SpiderCrane: A Lie-Bäcklund Approach

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt

In this paper we present modeling and control of a multicable suspended mechanism called the ‘2D SpiderCrane’. The use of cables, and thus avoiding conventional heavy components, makes such a mechanism suitable for working at high transfer speeds. The init ...

2009

Design of hybrid-kinematic mechanisms for machine tools

The machine tool industry is a well established, old and extremely important branch of today's manufacturing industry. With the ongoing globalization and the resulting increase of competition in this industry, the manufacturers have to push their technolog ...

EPFL2009