Mechanical and Control-Oriented Design of a Monolithic Piezoelectric Microgripper Using a New Topological Optimization Method

Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 32 - 45
Published: Feb 13, 2009
Abstract
This paper presents a new method developed for the optimal design of piezoactive compliant micromechanisms. It is based on a flexible building block method, called FlexIn (flexible innovation), which uses an evolutionary approach, to optimize a truss-like planar structure made of passive and active building blocks, made of piezoelectric material. An electromechanical approach, based on a mixed finite-element formulation, is used to establish the...
Paper Details
Title
Mechanical and Control-Oriented Design of a Monolithic Piezoelectric Microgripper Using a New Topological Optimization Method
Published Date
Feb 13, 2009
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
32 - 45
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