Effect of structural design parameters of a six-axis force/torque sensor using full factorial design

Force and torque sensors´ various applicabilities have raised great interest among scientists for decades. The optimal combination of design variables is a difficult task as it is affected by several input parameters. This paper presents an investigation on the effect of thickness, width and length of elastic cross-beams of the six-axis force sensor on the cross coupling interference. The finite element analysis is carried out for full factorial design experiments and the signal to noise ratio as well as analysis of variance is calculated and discussed.