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Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-9-41-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-9-41-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
Research article
 | 
31 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2018

A self-adjusting stiffness center design for large stroke compliant XY nanomanipulators

Zhiqing Liu, Zhen Zhang, and Peng Yan

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It is proposed a novel design method for large stroke XY compliant mechanisms. An important feature of the design lies in it restricts the parasitic rotation by reducing the moment of force instead of increasing the rotational stiffness widely utilized in the literature. It is presented a millimeter stroke XY nanomanipulator with the proposed design based redundant constraint in a case study. The proposed design provides an alternative to reduce the parasitic rotation of XY compliant mechanism.
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