Computational Tool Simplifies Creating Machines That Bend

TBMG-27732

10/01/2017

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Replacing rigid joints and linkages with mechanisms that bend offers a number of potential advantages, even as it makes designing devices more difficult. A computational design tool developed by Disney Research promises to make this transition from rigid to compliant mechanisms easier. The tool can take a design for a conventional, rigidly articulated device and automatically substitute parts that achieve the same function through flexibility, drawing from existing catalogs of compliant mechanisms.

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"Computational Tool Simplifies Creating Machines That Bend," Mobility Engineering, October 1, 2017.
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Oct 1, 2017
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TBMG-27732
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English