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Research article
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29 Sep 2023
Research article |
| 29 Sep 2023
| 29 Sep 2023
Assembly of reconfigurable Bricard-like mechanisms to form a multimode deployable arch
Ruiming Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Xianhong Zhang
School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Shuo Zhang
School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Ran Liu
School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Yan-an Yao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
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Short summary
This paper deals with the construction of a novel family of multimode deployable mechanisms. By connecting many identical threefold-symmetric Bricard-like mechanisms, a multimode deployable arch is proposed for the first time, which can switch between the scissor-like deployable mode and the arch deformable mode through the transition configuration. Then, new multimode center-driven deployable mechanisms can be obtained by connecting three and six multimode deployable arches.
This paper deals with the construction of a novel family of multimode deployable mechanisms. By...
