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ArticleMicromachines2021

Design, Fabrication, Testing and Simulation of a Rotary Double Comb Drives Actuated Microgripper.

Nicola Pio Belfiore, Alvise Bagolini, Andrea Rossi, Gabriele Bocchetta, Federica Vurchio, Rocco Crescenzi, Andrea Scorza, Pierluigi Bellutti, Salvatore Andrea Sciuto

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Nicola Pio BelfioreDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5390-2831
Alvise BagoliniMicro Nano Facility, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Andrea RossiDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9726-6010
Gabriele BocchettaDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.
Federica VurchioDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8198-4085
Rocco CrescenziDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy.
Andrea ScorzaDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3542-8854
Pierluigi BelluttiMicro Nano Facility, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Salvatore Andrea SciutoDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, 00146 Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a new microgripper actuated by means of rotary-comb drives equipped with two cooperating fingers arrays. The microsystem presents eight CSFH flexures (Conjugate Surface Flexure Hinge) that allow the designer to assign a prescribed motion to the gripping tips. In fact, the adoption of multiple CSFHs gives rise to the possibility of embedding quite a complex mechanical structure and, therefore, increasing the number of design parameters. For the case under study, a double four-bar linkage in a mirroring configuration was adopted. The presented microgripper has been fabricated by using a hard metal mask on a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer, subject to DRIE (Deep Reactive Ion Etching) process, with a vapor releasing final stage. Some prototypes have been obtained and then tested in a lab. Finally, the experimental results have been used in order to assess simulation tools that can be used to minimize the amount of expensive equipment in operational environments.

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comb drivescompliant mechanismsDRIEMEMSmicrogripper

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PMID34683314
PMCPMC8538711

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