Compliant mechanism collection

M2D2 Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Model No. 16

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This is a fancy compliant gripper design given by topology optimization. It certainly is more complicated than it should be but demonstrates that topology optimization can provide interesting solutions. When we pull the flat bar in the middle on the left side, the points on the right come together.

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M2D2 Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India

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