Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect S Materials Today: Proceedings 4 2010) 7388-7396 www material stday.com/procesdings ICAAMM-2016 Design And Development Of Compliant Mechanisms Using Parameterization Technique Sai Aswin Srikanth *, Bharanidaran.R®,* +, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore-632014 India “Associate Professor, Schoo! of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Insitute of Technology, Vellor-632014,India Abstract Design and development of compliant mechanism based systems with precision motion are the need of the hour in micro precision industry. Compliant mechanisms coupled with the proper flexure hinge can provide excellent accuracy contrary 10 conventional rigid bedy mechanism. Various design methods are proposed to design a compliant mechanism such as structural optimization technique, Pseudo Rigid Body Model, Inverse Methods and Intuitive methods, Developing a manufacturable ‘monolithic compliant mechanism is highly challenging. In this paper we have attempted a novel approach to design a compliant mechanism with circular based contemporary flexure hinge. The initial design of flexure hinge is designed intuitively and selection of appropriate geometrical parameters of the flexure hinges is another critical task in the design process. The developed hhinges are parameterised using the general sereening algorithm in ANSYS Workbench to obtain precise dimensions. ‘The initial design of flexure hinge is designed as a curved beam which have fixed centre of rotation during execution, The method is implemented to design a four bar compliant mechanism and compared with the mathematical results, Scott-Russell straight line mechanism is also developed using this approach and verified its effectiveness, Dimensions of the developed hinges are also provided in the paper to enable future researchers to implement and improve the design, © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of the Committee Members of International Conference on Advancements in ‘Acromechanical Materials for Manufacturing (ICAAMM-2016). Keywords: Compliant mechanism: cartwheel flexural hinges; parameterisation of compliant mechanisms; compliant four bar mechanisn * Comespording author. Tel: +91-9940525015. E-mail address: bhsranidsran-r@vitacin 2214-7853 © 2017 Elsevier Lid. All rights reserve. Selection and Pect-eview under responsibilty of the Committee Members of International Conference on Advancements in Acromechanicsl Materials for Manufacturing (CAAMM2016).