... to streamline the design process by identifying the load-dependent sources of trajectory error in a compliant mechanism, and thereby the limits with which this error may be redressed by topology modification. compliant mechanism accuracy path generation flexure microgripper topology optimization...

...D. Mundo; J. Y. Liu; H. S. Yan The paper proposes a method for the optimal synthesis of planar mechanisms, where a combination of cams and linkages is used in order to obtain a precise path generation. As a first step, based on Gruebler’s mobility criterion, a linkage mechanism is considered...

... of three categories: Motion generation, path generation, and function generation ( 4 5 6 ). Motion generation is the controlled translation and rotation of a moving reference frame relative to a fixed reference frame. Path generation is the controlled translation of a single point in a moving frame...

...Yong Liu; Renbin Xiao This paper presents an optimal synthesis method for path generation of planar mechanisms, in which a new path-description method named refined numerical representation is proposed to define the object function of the optimization model for path generation...