Microactuators and Micromechanisms

Preface.- List of Authors.- A Compliant Mechanism as Rocker Arm with Spring Capability for Precision Engineering Applications, by L. Hartmann and L. Zentner.- Steering and non-steering crawling tetrahedral micro-mechanisms, by D. Margineanu, E.-C. Lovasz, K.- H. Modler and C. M. Gruescu.- New Kinematic Designs of Flexure Hinge based 3 DoF Translational Micromanipulators, by I. Prause, D. Schoenen and B. Corves.- Development of adaptive compliant gripper finger with embedded actuators, by A. Milojevic and N. D. Pavlovic.- Overview and Classification of Flexure Hinge based Micromanipulators, by D. Schoenen, I. Prause, S. Palacios and B. Corves.- Axis cross-coupling reduction on a high bandwidth XY flexure stage, by A. Ruiz, F.J. Campa, O. Altuzarra, V. Petuya, C. Pinto and A. Hernández.- Some Structural and Kinematic Characteristics of Micro Walking Robots, by Adr. Comanescu, I. Dugaesescu and D. Comanescu.- Development of a 3-DOF compliant robotic local structure with large twist angle, by S. Kurtenbach, J. Siebrecht, D. Schoenen, M. Hüsing and B. Corves.- A Hexapod Walking Micro-Robot with Artificial Muscles, by I. Doroftei.- Side chain kinematics simulation on protein conformational changes, by Mikel Diez, Víctor Petuya, Mónica Urizar, Oscar Altuzarra and Alfonso Hernández.- Design and Fabrication of Millimeter-scale Crossed-cylinder Wrist Mechanism with Two Degrees of Freedom, by Brian D. Jensen, Jordan Tanner, Bryce Edmondson, Clayton Grames, Spencer P. Magleby and Larry L. Howell.- Conception of a mechanical System for Rehabilitation of Hand Function for use in medical Training Therapy, by M. Feierabend and L. Zentner.- Modeling, Parametric Synthesis and Characterization of Bellow-type Pneumatic Micro-Actuator, by J. Prateek and G. Prasanna.- Stability Analysis of Semi-Kinematic Mountings used in Modular Reconfigurable Micro Factory Testbed, by Mounika Katragadda, Aneissha Chebolu and Nagahanumaiah.- Multibody system simulation of hysteresiseffect by micro