Design and analysis of compliant microgripper – A review

Gunasekaran, Sudharsan; Periyagounder, Suresh; Annamalai, Saravanan; Balaji, Aravindha

doi:10.1063/5.0024894

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“…BioMEMS technology allows developing microgrippers, which can accurately manipulate micro/nanoscale objects. Mainly these microgrippers are used to manipulate individual cells, microbes, and/or blood vessels to carry out localized cell probing, measurement of properties of biological cells [40,41,42,43], manipulation of Oocytes [44], drug delivery systems, gene analysis, and some of them for surgical applications [45] [39]. Despite their enormous advances, there are many challenges regarding their sizes [46].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A mechanism can be composed of several mobile components that are linked to each other through different types of joints to transfer or transform motion, force, or energy, such as in the case of traditional rigid-body mechanisms. A mechanism can also be represented by a single body, such as the case of compliant mechanisms (CMs) that allow the flexion motion through its flexible members [42]. For example, Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research on compliant microgrippers has shown significant progress to increase the grasping force and sensing force [42].…”

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This review article provides an overview of some challenges that arise when developing new medical robotic microgrippers. The main challenges are due to miniaturization and are present in the manufacturing and assembly processes, the types of mechanisms, the biomaterials used, the actuation principles, and the compliance with some standards and regulations. The main medical fields where these microgrippers are used are in MIS and biomedical applications. Therefore, taking these two large groups into account, this review presents a microgrippers classification according to the type of mechanism used (traditional rigid-body mechanisms and complaint mechanisms). Moreover, parameters such as applications, functionalities, DOF, sizes, range of motion, biomaterial used, and proposed methods are highlighted. In total, the analysis of 21 microgrippers among commercial and developed by research institutes is presented.

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