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Flexonics for Manufacturing and Robotics

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Flexible mechatronics is an electro-mechanical system composed of flexible elements which are subjected to large deformations and capable of transferring forces, torques and energies. They have been widely used in many engineering applications in terms of compliant mechanisms such as snap-fits (S. Genc, R.W. Messler, G.A. Gabriele, Concurrent Eng.-Res. Appl. 10(2), 84–93 (1998)), micro grippers (V. Seidemann, S. Butefisch, S. Buttgenbach, Sens. Actuat. A-Phys. 97-8, 457–461 (2002)) and flexure hinges (B.-J. Yi, G.B. Chung, H.Y. Na, W.K. Kim, I.H. Suh, Robot. Autom. 19(4), 604–612 (2003)). In recent years, flexible or compliant devices have attracted more and more attention to biology related applications, such as flexible electronics, bio inspired robotics and food processing industry, because compliant components exhibit many advantages in dealing with highly deformable biological materials over rigid engineering tools in terms of simple structures and light weights.

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Guo, J., Lee, KM. (2019). Introduction. In: Flexonics for Manufacturing and Robotics. Research on Intelligent Manufacturing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2667-7_1

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