Additive Manufactured Piezoelectric-Driven Miniature Gripper.

ABSTRACT: In several cases, it is desirable to have prototypes of low-cost fabrication and adequate performance. In academic laboratories and industries, miniature and microgrippers can be very useful for observations and the analysis of small objects. Piezoelectrically actuated microgrippers, commonly fabricated with aluminum, and with micrometer stroke or displacement, have been considered as Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). Recently, additive manufacture using several polymers has also been used for the fabrication of miniature grippers. This work focuses on the design of a piezoelectric-driven miniature gripper, additive manufactured with polylactic acid (PLA), which was modeled using a pseudo rigid body model (PRBM). It was also numerically and experimentally characterized with an accepta

SUBMITTER: Ferrara-Bello CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10141374 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature