Compliant Mechanisms and Robotics
Current research focuses on design and modelling of compliant parallel mechanisms/manipulators for industrial and biomedical applications such as nanopositioner [Fig. (b)], scanning table, accelerometer, bio-cell gripper [Fig. (a)], and bio-cell injector due to their merits such as the eliminated backlash and friction, no need for lubrication, reduced wear and noise, and monolithic configuration.
In addition, decoupled translational parallel manipulators, nonlinear static analysis of basic beams, bionic hands [Fig. (c)], reliability modelling of dependent failure systems, and large-deflection finite element analysis (FEA) [Fig. (b)] are also the interested research areas.
