Compliant mechanisms with intermediate-deformation ranges are increasingly applied in
large-stroke precision manipulators and other actuators. The nonlinearities of axially-loaded …

Compliant mechanisms are crucial in a wide range of applications, and straight flexure
beams with uniform thickness serve as their fundamental building blocks. While techniques …

Flexure-jointed grippers provide compliant grasping capability, have low-cost and flexible
manufacturing, and are insusceptible to joint friction and wear. However, their grasp stiffness …

Compliant universal joints have been widely used in many applications such as precision
transmission mechanisms and continuum robots. However, their nonlinear spatial analysis …

Deployment techniques devised from compliant joints, shape memory materials, and inertial
effects from rotational motion can be employed in deployable structures to realize a time …

For flexure-based gripper mechanisms, the arrangement and design of joint elements may
be chosen to allow enclosure of objects in grasping. This must provide stable containment …

The kinetostatic and dynamic formulation of planar-compliant mechanisms is investigated by
making use of the dynamic stiffness method based on Timoshenko beam theory. This …

Owing to the advantages of monolithic structure and little need for assembling, compliant
guiding mechanisms appear to be an effective solution for decoupling multi-freedom …

This paper applies an energy method based on the high-order smooth curvature model to
address the challenges of kinetostatically modeling the complicated nonlinear post-buckling …

Remote center of motion (RCM) mechanisms are widely used because their center of
rotation is outside the mechanical device. Usually, compliant RCM mechanisms use a …