Abstract: A novel, monolithic, contactaided, displacementdelimited gripper is presented. It is designed to employ contact interactions between its deforming members to delimit the output displacement such that excessive forces on ...

Abstract: A topology synthesis approach to design 2D contact-aided compliant mechanisms (CCMs) to trace output paths with three or more kinks is presented. Synthesis process uses three different types of external, rigid contact ...

Abstract: Contactaided compliant mechanisms (CCMs) are synthesized via the material mask overlay strategy (MMOS) to trace desired nonsmooth paths. MMOS employs hexagonal cells to discretize the design region and engages negative ...

Abstract: Topologies of large deformation contact-aided compliant mechanisms (CCMs), with self and mutual contact, exemplified via path generation applications, are designed using the continuum synthesis approach. Design domain is ...

Abstract: Existing prosthetic/orthotic designs are rarely based on kinetostatics of a biological finger, especially its tendon–pulley system (TPS). Whether a biological TPS is optimal for use as a reference, say for design purposes, ...