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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"planar mechanism"”.
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Design and characterization of a planar mechanism for passive tilt-compensation
… work investigated the design and testing of a planar mechanism for passively compensating tilt between two flat surfaces brought into close proximity. The proposed design uses flexural components which eliminate friction and ensure smooth motion. To achieve this alignment in one of the two …
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A PHIGS based graphics interface for MECSYN
… an interactive graphics interface for MECSYN, a planar mechanism synthesis program. The purpose of this work is to produce a dynamic graphics interface, independent of a graphics device and providing a high level of user interaction. To achieve this, the proposed three-dimensional graphics …
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The design of adjustable spherical mechanisms using plane-to-sphere and sphere-to-plane projections
The spherical mechanism is a particular type of spatial mechanism. Due to the orientation of its joint axes and the curvature of its links, the workspaces of spherical mechanisms (whether line segments, closed loops or area regions) are spherical in curvature. This characteristic of spherical …
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Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms
This thesis introduces lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs) and presents components that can be used as building blocks to create LEMs capable of more complex motion. As the name suggests, lamina emergent mechanisms are fabricated out of planar materials (the lamina) but their motion is out of that …
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On Non-rigid Linkages
Linkage mechanisms and pin-jointed truss structures have been central to engineering design for centuries, providing the fundamental models through which motion transmission and structural rigidity have been understood. Conventional kinematic theory assumes perfectly rigid links joined by ideal …
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Achieving Complex Motion with Fundamental Components for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms
… to save space and reduce cost is to use ortho-planar compliant mechanisms which can be made from sheets of material, or lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs). This thesis presents principles which can be used for designing LEMs. Pop-up paper mechanisms use topologies similar to LEMs, so it is …