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Dannis Brouwer is the chair of the Precision Engineering group at the University of Twente focusing on precision motion of mechatronic and robotic systems. The group focusses on the development of model-based methods for the design and control of high-precision systems.

The main goal of the design activities is to continue, elaborate and to ‘scientificate’ 'Design Principles for Precision Mechanisms' by using a model-based approach. By developing new and advanced modeling methods like flexible multibody modeling, complex system designs can be thoroughly analyzed, understood, designed and optimized.

The main goal of the control activities is to develop improved motion control using an adaptive model-based approach. Models are available from design or analysis and online updating ensures matching the actual system dynamics. These models then used for improving precision through (disturbance) feedforward control, disturbance rejection control or feedback control optimization.

Dannis M. Brouwer received his MSc. degree in mechanical engineering, in 1998, and a postmaster (PDEng) degree in mechatronic design in 2001 from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has 8 years of industrial experience with Philips Centre for Industrial Technology (CFT), Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Demcon Advanced Mechatronics, Enschede, the Netherlands. In 2007, he received the doctoral degree in mechanics from the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He was appointed full Professor at the University of Twente in 2020 and is now chairing the Precision Engineering lab which includes 5 assistant Professors. He has (co-)authored over 50 refereed journal articles, 90 conference contributions and 8 patents on a variety of subjects including flexure mechanisms, kinematics, macro and micromanipulators, variable impedance robotics and precision engineering. In 2015 he received the prestigious personal VIDI grant for his large range of motion flexure research, where he was ranked 1^stout of 48. For three years he has served as a Director-at-Large for the American Society for Precision Engineering and he has been Associate Editor for Precision Engineering for 8 years.

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Engineering
- Flexure
- Mechanisms
- Design
- Support Stiffness
- Flexure Hinge
- Optimization
- Joints (Structural Components)
Physics
- Flexing

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2024

Design of an Underactuated, Flexure-Based Gripper, Actuated Through a Push–Pull Flexure (2024)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 17(6). Article 061009 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Dwarshuis, K., de Jong, J. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067265Design of a Hollow Flexible Hinge for an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (2024)In 48th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR). Article 143642 (Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference; Vol. 7). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Kamphof, W. E., Nijenhuis, M., Kragt, J. W., Lewińska-Maresca, M. A. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-143642A compact & efficient ReBCO actuator (2024)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Applied superconductivity conference, ASC 2024. Verbruggen, W., Dhallé, M. M. J., Santos Tomás, G. S., Kario, A. U., van Ginkel, K., Dwarshuis, K., Boersma, R., van Gorcum, M., Neut, M., van Oort, H., Brouwer, D. M. & Kisteman, A.Mitigating friction induced limit cycles by an intermediate flexure stage (2024)In Proceedings of the 24th international conference of the european society for precision engineering and nanotechnology (pp. 445-448). de Jong, J., Fix, J. & Brouwer, D. M.Automatic kinematic alignment of flexures in parallel mechanisms (2024)In Proceedings of the ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE2024. Article v007t07a012. Piening, P., Nijenhuis, M., Aarts, R. G. K. M. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-142820Flexure hinge design and optimization for compact anthropomorphic grippers made via metal additive manufacturing (2024)Journal of mechanical design, 146(1). Article 015001. Tschiersky, M., de Jong, J. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063362T-Flex ELC: A Flexure-Based Hexapod with Economical Actuation, Sensing and Kinematics (2024)In Proceedings of the 39th ASPE Annual Meeting. Uitbeijerse, J., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.

2023

Derivation of a superelement with deformable interfaces – applied to model flexure joint (2023)Multibody system dynamics, 59, 485-508. Dwarshuis, K., Ellenbroek, M., Aarts, R. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-023-09914-8Numerical Optimization of Underactuated Flexure-Based Grippers (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2023. Okken, B., Dekker, J. P., de Jong, J. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2023-116752Efficient Computation of Large Deformation of Spatial Flexure-Based Mechanisms in Design Optimizations (2023)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 15(2). Article 021011 . Dwarshuis, K., Aarts, R., Ellenbroek, M. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054730Design of a redimensionable and economic flexure-based 6-DOF manipulator demonstrator (2023)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Koers, T. M.Beams with a Varying Cross Section in the Generalized Strain Formulation for Flexure Modeling (2023)Journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, 18(3), 1-14. Article 031001. Dwarshuis, K., Aarts, R., Ellenbroek, M. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056482T-Flex LC: A Flexure-Based Hexapod with a Simplified Kinematic Structure (2023)In Proceedings - ASPE 2023 Annual Meeting (pp. 99-102). American Society for Precision Engineering. Koers, T. M., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.

2022

Beam-based analysis of flexure mechanisms: Increasing computational efficiency, accuracy and design freedom (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Dwarshuis, K.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554831A multinode superelement in the generalized strain formulation (2022)Multibody system dynamics, 56, 367-399. Dwarshuis, K., Ellenbroek, M., Aarts, R. & Brouwer, D.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-022-09850-zA Flexure-Based Linear Guide With Torsion Reinforcement Structures (2022)Journal of mechanisms and robotics, 14(3). Article 031013. Rommers, J., Naves, M., Brouwer, D. M. & Herder, J. L.https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052971Alleviating stress concentrations by constant curvature flexure mechanisms (2022)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 22nd International Conference & Exhibition, EUSPEN 2022. de Jong, J. J. & Brouwer, D. M.Gravity Balancing Flexure Spring Mechanisms for Shoulder Support in Assistive Orthoses (2022)IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 4(2), 448-459. Tschiersky, M., Hekman, E. E. G., Herder, J. L. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2022.3155293A massively overconstrained and statically balanced flexure mechanism for a 20 kN load capacity (2022)In Proceedings - ASPE 2022 Annual Meeting (pp. 98-101). American Society for Precision Engineering. de Jong, J. J., Nijenhuis, M. & Brouwer, D. M.High torsion stiffness leafspring flexure element using distributed warping constraints (2022)In European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Conference Proceedings - 22nd International Conference and Exhibition, EUSPEN 2022 (pp. 119-122). EUSPEN. Nijenhuis, M., Naves, M. & Brouwer, D.

2021

Computation of internal stress resultants in beam elements with constrained torsional warping (2021)In Proceedings of the10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on MULTIBODY DYNAMICS (pp. 68-79). Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Dwarshuis, K., Nijenhuis, M., Aarts, R. G. K. M., Ellenbroek, M. H. M. & Brouwer, D. M.Data underlying the publication: A flexure-based linear guide with torsion reinforcement structures (2021)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Rommers, J., Naves, M., Brouwer, D. M. & Herder, J. L.https://doi.org/10.4121/16864078Improving Support Stiffness of Flexure Mechanisms by Statically Balancing (2021)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering, ASPE 2021. de Jong, J., Theans, S., Epping, L. & Brouwer, D. M.T-Flex: A fully flexure-based large range of motion precision hexapod (2021)Precision engineering, 72, 912-928. Naves, M., Nijenhuis, M., Seinhorst, B., Hakvoort, W. & Brouwer, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precisioneng.2021.08.015Design and optimization of large stroke flexure mechanisms (2021)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Naves, M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036549943

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