Abstract: In this paper, an intuitive approach for the mobility analysis of deployable mechanisms involved in a special screw system with two coplanar twist vectors is proposed. First, the coplanar screw system with a pair of ...

Abstract: Reconfigurable mechanisms attract increasing attention for the characteristic to change structure configurations and motion behaviors in various multifunctional systems. By drawing inspiration from a kirigami fold, this ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design of an underactuated robotic arm for capturing moving targets with an impactabsorbing capability. The arm consists of three joints (a base joint (BJ), a medial joint (MJ), and a distal joint ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a virtual chain approach for the mobility analysis of multiloop deployable mechanisms. First, the relative motion of the links of singleloop units in multiloop mechanisms are analyzed using the ...

Abstract: In this paper, a class of large deployable mechanisms constructed by plane-symmetric Bricard linkages is presented. The plane-symmetric Bricard linkage is a closed-loop overconstrained spatial mechanism composed of six ...

Abstract: Capturing noncooperative targets in space has great prospects for aerospace application. In this work, the knuckle unit of a large-scale reconfigurable space multifingered hand (LSRSMFH) for multitask requirements is ...

Abstract: This paper presents a transformation method to generate the workspace of an n(3RRS) serial–parallel manipulator (S–PM). Firstly, the boundary of the workspace of the 3RRS parallel manipulator (PM) is obtained using the ...