Graduation Year
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.M.E.
Degree Granting Department
Mechanical Engineering
Major Professor
Craig P. Lusk, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Autar K. Kaw, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Nathan B. Crane, Ph.D.
Keywords
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), compliant, out-of-plane, ortho-planar, 3-D mechanism, pop-up structure, pseudo-rigid-body model
Abstract
The Bistable Aerial Platform (BAP) has been developed in order to further enlarge the repertoire of devices available at the microscale. This novel device functions as a switch in that its platform can lock in two positions, up or down. Herein, it will be examined and explained, but a true understanding of its workings requires a better understanding of its compliant constituent parts. The Helico-Kinematic Platform (HKP), which serves as an actuator for the BAP, is currently under investigation by another researcher and will be merely touched upon here. The focus, therefore, will rest on the analysis of the Quadrantal Bistable Mechanism (QBM), the principle component of the BAP. A preliminary pseudo-rigid-body model, an aid for the understanding of compliant mechanisms, will also be examined for the QBM. The models developed for these two devices, the HKP and QBM, can later be combined to form a full model of the Bistable Aerial Platform.
Scholar Commons Citation
Muñoz, Aaron A., "Developments Toward a Micro Bistable Aerial Platform: Analysis of the Quadrantal Bistable Mechanism" (2008). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/419
