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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
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Flowchart for the rigid-body shape-changing synthesis approach for morphing aircraft wings

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(a) Three target profiles. (b) Two of the target profiles are shifted to minimize the distance relative to the third. (c) A mean profile (solid line). (d) The mean profile shifted to minimize the distance relative to each of the target profiles. []

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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
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Definition of the design variables and elements of the objective function for the optimization procedure to align the moving segments of the fixed-end morphing chain (shown as solid lines) with position i of the desired wing shape (shown as dashed lines)

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Basic building blocks: (a) RRR block and (b) PRR block

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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
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Assembly of building blocks to yield a 1-DOF mechanism that approximates (a) an open-curve design profile and (b) a closed-curve design profile

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The challenge of locating two building blocks after the least squares approach to minimize the error in approximating the design profiles in n different positions has been implemented

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Definition of design variables and parameters used in the numerical optimization method to solve the challenge of locating building blocks created by the least squares approach

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Horizontal and vertical loads applied on the wing profile during morphing

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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
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Figure Legend:
Plot of the largest movement D of all points in the morphing chain. Points that moved less 0.07 ft were considered as candidates for the ground section.

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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
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Repositioning of the fixed-end morphing chain to be in the eight positions closest to the eight wing shapes

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Simplified point loads (lb) applied on each segment of the fixed-end morphing chain

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Record of the Pareto front for the adaptive wing design example

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From: Design of Planar, Shape-Changing Rigid-Body Mechanisms for Morphing Aircraft Wings
J. Mechanisms Robotics. 2012;4(4): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Solid model of the solution mechanism approximating eight wing profiles