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This document discusses topology optimization techniques for synthesizing contact-aided compliant mechanisms (CCMs). CCMs use intermittent contact interactions in addition to elastic deformation to transmit force and motion, enabling a wider variety of nonsmooth motions than traditional compliant mechanisms. However, contact interactions introduce nondifferentiability that precludes using efficient smooth optimization algorithms. The paper presents a regularization approach that uses a smooth approximation

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