Simulation, Analysis, and Experimentation of the Compliant Finger as a Part of Hand-Compliant Mechanism Development

Compliant mechanisms are gaining popularity in many different fields, such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), medical applications and health care, opto-mechatronic technology, aerospace engineering, semiconductor equipment. One of the areas for utilizing compliant is building models human hand counterparts. These often used grasping rehabilitation devices. Because their properties, creating a counterpart with much better choice compared traditional mechanisms; it looks more realistic, its movements natural mechanism. A method modeling designing bio-inspired mechanism, well experimental analysis various forces applied, presented this paper. Two prototypes fingers were obtained by 3D printing, calculation bending angle values was achieved applying image processing to camera images fingers’ prototypes. Image conducted on taken both loaded unloaded 3D-printed finger prototype positions. Finally, these results Finite Element Method (FEM) acquired digital protractor.