Design of path generating compliant mechanisms by evolutionary optimization of topology and shape

• Main Author: Shamim Akhtar.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Production Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechatronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/6355
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This work looks into the design and synthesis of such path generating compliant mechanisms by topology and shape design optimization. The optimization is done using a specially formulated evolutionary algorithm together with an efficient geometry representation scheme called the Morphological Repres...