Abstract: This paper presents an original technique to locate the center of curvature of the path traced by an arbitrary point fixed in the coupler link of a planar four-bar linkage. The method is ...

Abstract: This paper extends geometric constraint programming (GCP) to function generation problems involving large numbers of finitely separated precision points and complex mechanisms. In parametric design ...

Abstract: This paper presents an original approach to the kinematic synthesis of planar mechanisms for finitely separated positions. The technique, referred to here as geometric constraint programming, uses ...

Abstract: This paper presents a graphical technique to locate the center of curvature of the path traced by an arbitrary coupler point of the single flier eight-bar linkage. The first step is to locate ...