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Understanding Speed and Force Ratios for Compliant Mechanisms

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Advances in Mechanisms, Robotics and Design Education and Research

Part of the book series: Mechanisms and Machine Science ((Mechan. Machine Science,volume 14))

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Active, compliant mechanisms with powered joints and compliant, spring-based links are beneficial at reducing input loads and power requirements by changing both the speed and force ratios. In these mechanisms, the speed and force ratios are a function of mechanism geometry and the load applied to the output link. Both ratios are analysed for a classic slider crank linkage.

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  1. Arizona State University and SpringActive, Inc., Arizona, USA

    Thomas G. Sugar & Matthew Holgate

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  1. , School of Engineering and, University of Pennsylvania, 220 South 33rd Street, 107 Towne Building, Philadelphia, 19104-6391, Pennsylvania, USA

    Vijay Kumar

  2. , Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Fitzpatrick Hall 365, Notre Dame, 46556, Indiana, USA

    James Schmiedeler

  3. , Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, E. Dean Keeton St. C2100 301, Austin, 78712, Texas, USA

    S. V. Sreenivasan

  4. , Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, West 19th Ave. 201, Columbus, 43220, Ohio, USA

    Hai-Jun Su

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Sugar, T.G., Holgate, M. (2013). Understanding Speed and Force Ratios for Compliant Mechanisms. In: Kumar, V., Schmiedeler, J., Sreenivasan, S., Su, HJ. (eds) Advances in Mechanisms, Robotics and Design Education and Research. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 14. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_9

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