%% Clear Workspace and Close figures clear; close all; clc; %% Intialize Laplace variable s = zpk('s'); %% Path for functions, data and scripts addpath('./mat/'); % Path for data %% Colors for the figures colors = colororder; % Measurement Results % The specified flexible beam thickness (gap) is $250\,\mu m$. % Four gaps are measured for each flexible joints (2 in the $x$ direction and 2 in the $y$ direction). % The "beam thickness" is then estimated to be the mean between the gaps measured on opposite sides. % An histogram of the measured beam thicknesses is shown in Figure ref:fig:test_joints_size_hist. % The measured thickness is less thant the specified value of $250\,\mu m$, but this optical method may not be very accurate as the estimated gap can depend on the lighting of the part and of its proper alignment. % However, what is more important than the true value of the thickness is the consistency between all the flexible joints. %% Measured gap for the 16 flexible joints meas_flex = [[223, 226, 224, 214]; [229, 231, 237, 224]; [234, 230, 239, 231]; [233, 227, 229, 232]; [225, 212, 228, 228]; [220, 221, 224, 220]; [206, 207, 228, 226]; [230, 224, 224, 223]; [223, 231, 228, 233]; [228, 230, 235, 231]; [197, 207, 211, 204]; [227, 226, 225, 226]; [215, 228, 231, 220]; [216, 224, 224, 221]; [209, 214, 220, 221]; [213, 210, 230, 229]]; %% Histogram of the measured gap figure; hold on; histogram([(meas_flex(:,1)+meas_flex(:,2))/2,(meas_flex(:,3)+meas_flex(:,4))/2], 7) hold off; xlabel("Measured beam thickness [$\mu m$]"); xticks([200, 205, 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, 235]) %% Save beam sizes save('./mat/flex_meas_dim.mat', 'meas_flex');