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From: A Compliant Transmission Mechanism With Intermittent Contacts for Cycle-Doubling
J. Mech. Des. 2006;129(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
The experimental setup for testing the prototype. A microcontroller (BS2, Basic Stamp2, Parallax Inc.) is used to control the stepper motor (SM, EAD Motors LA23ECKJ-4) which actuates the input port (IP) of the mechanism at a frequency of approximately 0.1Hz. The cycle-doubler is mounted on and anchored to a clear Plexiglas frame (PF) at the locations labeled E in Fig. . The horizontal white strips in the figure correspond to the external contact surfaces (CS), which are lined with Teflon®. A rare earth magnet is glued to the output port (OP) of the cycle doubler. This allows the displacement of the output port to be monitored in a noncontact manner by a linear Hall-effect sensor (HS, Allegro Microdevices A1323) mounted on the Plexiglas frame near the output port. Salient parameters for the experiment are summarized in Table .