摘要
The authors develop a method for optimally configuring the geometry and the material fabrication parameters of hollow box members for robotic manipulators constructed with composite laminates. We do it by integrating a formulation for laminated beams with a recent approach for predicting the damping characteristics of laminates before incorporating this general theory into an optimization algorithm, which permits general constraint conditions to be imposed on the solution procedure. To illustrate the proposed design methodology, we give an example of an industrial manipulator with flexible links that describes three-dimensional motion.