Current Projects:
"Compliant Mechanism Designs for a Perching Micro Aerial Vehicles", sponsored by Air Force Research Lab
Abstract: The research objective of this project is to develope a compliant mechanism synthesis theory for designing flapping wing mechanisms and landing gears for a bird-sized MAV being developed at AFRL. Click here for a video.
"CAREER: A Theoretical Framework for the Conceptual Design of Compliant Systems", sponsored by National Science Foundation
Abstract: The research objective of this project is to provide a theoretical framework for advancing the state-of-art of the conceptual design of compliant systems. The goal of this work is to (i) develop a kinetostatic synthesis theory for the concept generation of compliant mechanisms, (ii) gain a fundamental understanding of compliant mechanism design problems by seeking their entire solution via computational algorithms based on globally convergent polynomial solvers, and (iii) explore the use of virtual reality (VR) environments for the interactive design of compliant mechanisms.
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"CAREER: A Theoretical Framework for the Conceptual Design of Compliant Systems", sponsored by National Science Foundation
Abstract: The research objective of this project is to provide a theoretical framework for advancing the state-of-art of the conceptual design of compliant systems. The goal of this work is to (i) develop a kinetostatic synthesis theory for the concept generation of compliant mechanisms, (ii) gain a fundamental understanding of compliant mechanism design problems by seeking their entire solution via computational algorithms based on globally convergent polynomial solvers, and (iii) explore the use of virtual reality (VR) environments for the interactive design of compliant mechanisms.
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"Collaborative Research: Variational Kinematic Geometry and Task Driven Mechanism Design in VR Environment", sponsored by National Science Foundation
Collaborator: Prof. Qiaode Jeffery Ge, Stony Brook University
Abstract: The research objective of this award is to develop a new, constraint based paradigm for task-driven mechanism design in a virtual environment. Concepts in variational geometry for constraint based geometric modeling will be extended from geometric domain to kinematic domain for representing and resolving kinematic constraints that define a given motion. This facilitates a constraint based analysis, classification, and synthesis of rigid body motions by applying and adapting existing methods in the field of computational shape analysis.
Past Projects:
"A Hybrid Method for Synthesizing Compliant Mechanisms", sponsored by UMBC DRIF
Abstract: This research objective of this proposal is to develop a hybrid method that combines computational design approach and constraint-based design approach for synthesizing compliant mechanisms. A mathematical formulation of constraint-based design rules will be developed and used to derive constraint equations for synthesizing pseudo-rigid-body models of compliant mechanisms. These equations will then be solved by polynomial homotopy solvers and resultant elimination methods.
Synthetica 3.0 is released.