Design, Identification and Control of a 2-Degree of Freedom Flexure-Based Mechanism for Micro/Nano Manipulation

Synthesis of multiple degrees-of-freedom spatial-motion compliant parallel mechanisms with desired stiffness and dynamics characteristics

“…T he t raditional method synthesized CPMs uses known parallel-kinematic configurations a nd a rticulated t hem v ia t he fl exure joints. Various CPMs have been synthesized by this method, ranging from simple 1-DOF [2,3], 2-DOF [4,5,6,7,8] and 3-DOF CPMs [9,10,11,12] to more complex 5-DOF [13] and 6-DOF CPMs [14,15]. However, the traditional method depends heavily on human's intuition to synthesize a CPM.…”