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Journal article (2018)

Authors

D. Farhadi Machekposhti Mechatronic Systems Design - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
J.L. Herder Precision and Microsystems Engineering , Mechatronic Systems Design - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Guy Semon TAG Heuer
N. Tolou Mechatronic Systems Design - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Research Group
Mechatronic Systems Design (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 D. Farhadi Machekposhti, J.L. Herder, Guy Semon, N. Tolou
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Precision and Microsystems Engineering

Research Group

Mechatronic Systems Design

Abstract

A method is introduced to design compliant micro transmission mechanisms which double the motion frequency of a cyclic input motion. Compliant embodiments are generated based on exploiting the singularity in a double-slider mechanism, which provides building blocks with a frequency-multiplication factor of two. It is shown that the proposed building blocks can be concatenated for higher frequency-multiplication ratios. To validate the building block approach, a compliant micro transmission mechanism is presented which quadruples the frequency of a cyclic rectilinear input motion.