Lego-like Compliant-mechanism Building Blocks that Maintain their DOFs

This video introduces the concept of configuration-indifferent compliant building blocks that can be assembled like Legos in any configuration or arrangement to produce compliant mechanisms of any complexity that achieve the same degrees of freedom (DOFs) as their constituent building blocks.

To learn more about how to design these special building blocks, see the published Precision Engineering journal article at this link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

The reference for the paper is:
McCarthy, B., Nail, E., Nagarajan, A., McCullough, J., Hopkins, J.B., 2023, “Design of Configuration Indifferent Compliant Building Blocks,” Precision Engineering, 81: pp. 60-67

Part files to fabricate the examples shown in the video can be downloaded on Thingiverse using these two links:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:605...
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:605...

Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Jason Ma, Bennett McCarthy, Alexander McClelland, John McCullough, Naya Menezes, Michael Munguia, Mohammad sina Nabiee, Ashvin Nagarajan, Aditya Navghare, Johnny Nguyen, Phi Nguyen, Tommy Nguyen, Elizabeth Nail, Jimmy Penaloza, Supreethi Penmetcha, Wendyl Perez, and Shivam Kumar Panda.

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