Advances of Compliant Mechanisms in Sensors for Young Researchers
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 2109
Special Issue Editors
Interests: compliant mechanisms; smart structures; architectured materials; origami; micro/nano-manipulators
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Interests: kinetostatic modeling and design of compliant mechanisms; precision machine design
Interests: compliant mechanisms; piezoelectric sensors; precision actuation; smart sensors; mechanical dynamics
Interests: compliant mechanisms; mechanism synthesis; mechanism kinematics; mechanism dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As popular precision and robotic devices, compliant mechanisms deliver displacement, force and energy by elastic deformation of the materials. Such mechanisms generate smooth motion without the issues of wear, backlash, friction, clearance and are ease of monolithic manufacturing in contrast to traditional rigid-body mechanisms. Motion transmission is realized by flexure hinges, flexible beams, diaphragms, and other soft materials, etc. Targeting different engineering tasks, compliant mechanisms have been applied extensively in both actuator and sensor scenarios, ranging from macro-scale, to micro-scale and to nano-scale. Exemplary applications include micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), ultra-precision manufacturing, micro/nano-manipulation, precision automatic assembly, medical instruments, to name a few. Compliant mechanisms can transmit information with much high precision, meanwhile, the structural deformation can easily be extended to 2D/3D, facilitating a sensor to receive and convert high-dimensional information. Traditional applications of compliant mechanisms in sensors include single/multiple degree-of-freedom force sensors, accelerometers, mass calibrators, etc. Recent advances in such areas have made emerging electronic skin, flexible printed circuits, and mechanical metamaterials to enhance the performances of sensors and actuators, with an ultra-high sensitivity. These actuator and senor applications are enabled by the novel design/synthesis, sophisticated analysis and implementation of advanced signal processing strategies of compliant mechanisms.
The main focus of this Special Issue is on the state of the art of compliant mechanisms dedicated to diverse sensor science and engineering fields, with a particular interest in soliciting papers from young researchers. The issue is focused on but not limited to the novel synthesis and design theories, modeling and analyses methods, modern manufacturing techniques and applications of compliant mechanisms that can be utilized to improve sensor performances or to configure new conception of sensors. Data acquisition, processing, and systematic optimization are also of concern in this Special Issue.
Dr. Guangbo Hao
Dr. Fulei Ma
Dr. Mingxiang Ling
Dr. Haiyang Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- compliant mechanisms
- novel sensor design
- system calibration and optimization
- kinetostatic and dynamics modeling
- signal processing in sensors
- manufacture and IC packaging
- MEMS/NEMS devices
- flexure hinges
- flexible structures
- compliance-based sensors
- variable-stiffness devices
