How is CoMeT used at MIT?
Use in the classroom: (1) An exploratory learning tool – The sketching and analysis components enable students to rapidly explore many designs and learn about screw axes (3D), virtual centers of rotation, stress, strain and stiffness. Through exploration, students gain a working sense of compliant mechanism fundamentals. (2) A project design tool – CoMeT-Lite can be used to enhance learning in students’ compliant mechanism projects. Students can spend more time on the project’s learning goals rather than devoting project time to learning a CAD program and/or an FEA program. This can be done without losing sight of the important fundamentals of the analysis. CoMeT-Lite is used at MIT (2.000: How & Why Machines Work–psdam.mit.edu/2.000/start.html) by students to design compliant robotic nano-manipulators. CoMeT has been used in the undergraduate curriculum (2.000 How and Why Machines Work, http://psdam.mit.edu/2.000/start.html ) and in graduate curriculum (2.76 Multi-Scale System Design
