Delta Design, a company that produces large scale microchip handlers sponsored our team of 5 to research and design the feasibility of using miniature linear actuating Squiggle(c) motors to control the position of a minimalist X,Y, theta stage.
Our team designed configurations that fit the actuators, flexural bearings, and encoders all into the tightly confined space. Further, we proposed novel arrangements of flexures to provide mechanical advantage of the linear actuators and performed FEA to highlight how to the flexural elements could be optimized.
We used Solidworks Simulation FEA to simulate different configuration of flexures during the process.
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