Design and modeling of a six DOF's MEMS-based precision manipulators
| Autor: | Dannis Michel Brouwer, Herman Soemers, B.R. de Jong |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculty of Engineering Technology |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Timoshenko beam theory
Engineering Precision engineering Mechanical engineering Six degrees-of-freedom Kinematics Six degrees of freedom Exact constraint design Microelectromechanical systems MST Elastic mechanism business.industry METIS-258956 General Engineering Compliant mechanism Parallel manipulator Compliant mechanisms Structural engineering Precision Flexure mechanisms Finite element method MEMS Manipulator DOFs IR-70591 Micro-systems technology business |
| Zdroj: | Precision engineering, 34(2), 307-319. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0141-6359 |
| Popis: | In this paper a design is presented for a precision MEMS-based six degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) manipulator. The purpose of the manipulator is to position a small sample (10 μm × 20 μm × 0.2 μm) in a transmission electron microscope. A parallel kinematic mechanism with slanted leaf-springs is used to convert the motion of six in-plane electrostatic comb-drives into six DOFs at the end-effector. The manipulator design is based on the principles of exact constraint design, resulting in a high actuation compliance (flexibility) combined with a relatively high suspension stiffness. However, due to fabrication limitations overconstrained design has been applied to increase the stiffness in the out-of-plane direction. The result is a relatively large manipulator stroke of 20 μm in all directions combined with a high first vibration mode frequency of 3.8 kHz in relation to the used area of 4.9 mm × 5.2 mm. The motion of the manipulator is guided by elastic elements to avoid backlash, friction, hysteresis and wear, resulting in nanometer resolution position control. The fabrication of the slanted leaf-springs is based on the deposition of silicon nitride (SixNy) on a silicon pyramid, which in turn is obtained by selective crystal plane etching by potassium hydroxide (KOH). The design has been analyzed and optimized with a multibody program using flexible beam theory. A previously developed flexible beam element has been used for modeling the typical relatively large deflections and the resulting position-dependent behavior of compliant mechanisms in MEMS. The multibody modeling has been verified by FEM modeling. Presently only parts of the manipulator have been fabricated. Therefore, a scaled-up version of the manipulator has been fabricated to obtain experimental data and to verify the design and modeling. |
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