Flexure Joints for Large Range of Motion

Research by the PE lab at the University of Twente:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/et/ms3/rese...

Below are some references:
M. Naves, D.M. Brouwer, R.G.K.M. Aarts, Building block based spatial topology synthesis method for large stroke flexure hinges, ASME robotics and mechanisms, accepted manuscript, doi: 10.1115/1.4036223.

Naves M, Aarts RGKM, Brouwer DM (2017) “Large stroke three degree-of-freedom spherical flexure joint”, Euspen’s 17th international conference and exhibition, Hannover, Germany.

M. Nijenhuis, J.P Meijaard, J.L. Herder, S. Awtar, D.M. Brouwer, An analytical formulation for the lateral support stiffness of a spatial flexure strip, ASME mechanical design, in-press.

D.H. Wiersma, S.E. Boer, R.G.K.M. Aarts, D.M. Brouwer, Design and Performance Optimization of Large Stroke Spatial Flexures, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (ISSN 1555-1415), 9(1), 011016, pp. 10 (2014). DOI: 10.1115/1.4025669

D.M. Brouwer, K.G.P. Folkersma, S.E. Boer, and R.G.K.M. Aarts, Exact Constraint Design of a Two-Degree of Freedom Flexure-Based Mechanism, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (ISSN 1942-4302) 5(4), 041011, pp. 10 (2013). DOI: 10.1115/1.4025175