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Higher-order continuation method for the rigid-body kinematic design of compliant mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Lennart Rubbert

Compliant mechanisms are of great interest in precision engineering. In this paper we propose a higher order continuation method to help their rigid-body kinematic design. The method helps to investigate the choice of a mechanism configuration through the ...

Elsevier2017

The Art of Flexure Mechanism Design

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Lennart Rubbert, Murielle Richard

Flexure mechanism design is an art, and this book provides the theoretical and practical foundation for scientists and engineers to express their creativity in this field. Flexure mechanisms, also known as compliant mechanisms, rely on the elasticity of ma ...

EPFL Press2017

Fabrication-Aware Design of Timber Folded Plate Shells with Double Through Tenon Joints

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

Integral attachment, the joining of parts through their form rather than additional connectors or adhesives, is a common technique in many industry sectors. Following a renaissance of integral joints for timber frame structures, recent research investigate ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Fabrication of slender elastic shells by the coating of curved surfaces

François Gallaire, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Gioele Mariano Nicolò Balestra, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun

Various manufacturing techniques exist to produce double-curvature shells, including injection, rotational and blow molding, as well as dip coating. However, these industrial processes are typically geared for mass production and are not directly applicabl ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

The Unreinforced Wall (URM) elements that are most susceptible to out-of-plane failure are wall elements of the upper storeys where the accelerations are largest. In modern URM buildings with reinforced concrete slabs, the out-of-plane mechanism involves t ...

Taylor and Francis Group2016

Integral Mechanical Attachment (IMA) uses features in the form of components for their connection. In addition to the transfer of forces, locator features are used as integral assembly guides. Prismatic, single-degree-of-freedom (1DOF) joints only allow fo ...

2016

Concept of a soft exosuit for the support of leg function in rehabilitation

In the past couple of years, the concept of exosuits has emerged. These soft, robotic devices are primarily made of textiles and can be worn like clothes. They assist the user during specific motions by transmitting forces around the human joints making us ...

IEEE2015

Path-following funnel control for rigid-link revolute-joint robotic systems

Timm Faulwasser

In this paper we investigate the application of funnel control to unconstrained path-following problems. While funnel control is a high-gain based time-varying feedback strategy applicable to minimum-phase systems with known relative degree, path following ...

2014

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Efficient Milling Process Plans for Prismatic Parts

Nenad Nesic

The milling process has been continuously optimized from many aspects: forces, velocities, stability, quality. Numerous papers have been published that report results in the domain of toolpath optimization with criteria such as raising the quality of the m ...

EPFL2012

G1 continuous approximate curves on NURBS surfaces

Bailin Deng, Wei Zeng

Curves on surfaces play an important role in computer aided geometric design. In this paper, we present a parabola approximation method based on the cubic reparameterization of rational Bezier surfaces, which generates G1 continuous approximate curves lyin ...

2012