Abstract: The design of a novel prismatic drive is reported in this paper. This transmission is based on Slide-o-Cam, a cam mechanism with multiple rollers mounted on a common translating follower. The ...

Abstract: This paper investigates two situations in which the forward kinematics of planar 3-RP̱R parallel manipulators degenerates. These situations have not been addressed before. The first degeneracy ...

Abstract: Positioning 3R manipulators may have two or four inverse kinematic solutions (IKS). This paper derives a necessary and sufficient condition for 3R positioning manipulators with orthogonal joint ...