Sensor placement with a telescoping compliant mechanism

Abstract

The aim of this work is to develop a new compliant mechanism [1-3]. The observation of the snail (helix pomatia L.) provides the biological inspiration of a compliant mechanism consisting of silicone. For this an analytic model was generated. With the finite element method (FEM) the influence of design parameter variation and the variation of the used compliant material on motion behavior of the structure center under increasing internal pressure load was investigated. The motion behavior of the first prototype showed an acceptable quantitative and qualitative correlation with the simulation results. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.