FBG-Based Sensitivity Structure Based on Flexure Hinge and Its Application for Pipeline Pressure Detection. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2022 Liu Z, Lu S, Wang D, Guo Y, Wu L.
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Microfabrication of Soft Millirobots Propelled by Low Voltage Electrohydraulic Actuators
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Manual layer‐by‐layer assembly is replaced by wafer‐level MEMS batch fabrication for compliant polymer‐based electrohydraulic actuators. The microfabricated devices integrate sacrificially defined microcavities, Parylene‐C‐sealed inlets, and multilayer polymer–metal films.
Shai Shmulevich +2 more
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Inverse kinematic modeling of a coupled flexure hinge mechanism
, 1999 An inverse kinematic model of a micro-motion stage with three degrees-of-freedom motion is presented. The XYθ stage uses three piezoelectric actuators and a monolithic flexure hinge mechanism which is designed to provide large θ motion.
Lee, Sung Q. +7 more
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Liquid‐Crystal‐Based Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 7 GHz Mobile Communication
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The glass‐based liquid‐crystal reconfigurable intelligent surface (LC‐RIS) integrates active‐matrix driving and blind‐greedy phase optimization within a 5G‐NR OFDM framework. This enables continuously tunable and autonomous enhancement of wireless coverage. Leveraging the transparency and manufacturability of liquid crystal panels, it is ideally suited
Tien‐Lun Ting +5 more
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DETERMINATION OF NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF A PLANAR SERIAL FLEXURE-HINGE MECHANISM USING A NEW PSEUDO-RIGID-BODY MODEL (PRBM) METHOD [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an approach to the free vibration analysis of planar serial flexure-hinge compliant mechanisms basing on a pseudo-rigid-body method with 3-DOF (degrees of freedom) joints.
Šalinić, Slaviša +1 more
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Performance Optimization of Flexure Hinges Using Genetic Algorithm
, 2011 The flexure hinge is an important part of micro-displacement table in the precision instruments. To improve the performance of micro-displacement table, the key parameters of its flexure hinges: radius and thickness of hinge and length of connecting rods
Bing Li, Jin Gou
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Design and Performance Analysis of a TLET-Type Flexure Hinge
, 2020 In order to permit a large deflection, three lamina emergent torsional flexure hinges are reconfigured to create a new triple LET-type flexure hinge (TLET) in this paper.
Ngoc Le Chau +2 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Edible robotics is an emerging field that leverages edible materials to construct robotic systems. This study presents a method to create thin, lightweight, yet powerful edible soft actuators, namely edible pouch motors. The successful operation of these edible actuators and grippers renders their potential to advance future developments in edible ...
Keigo Takahashi +3 more
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Flexure hinge with a high support stiffness in a large range of motion
, 2012 Flexure-based mechanisms do not suffer from friction, stiction or backlash, and therefore they show a high level of determinacy. Several new flexure hinge designs will be presented, as well as a method for optimising the geometry of flexure hinges to ...
Boer, Steven +6 more
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