Abstract: For closed-loop spatial RSRC mechanisms, input-output rotatability conditions, i.e., conditions for the existence of crank-rocker and drag-link types of mechanisms, are derived using geometrical ...

Abstract: The Monte Carlo method is used to solve a number of manipulator link shape design, task space, and obstacle placement problems. The shape of links of manipulators that are to operate within ...

Abstract: Closed-form Grashof-type movability conditions are derived for closed-loop RSSR mechanisms using a geometrical approximation technique. The conditions that ensure the presence of crank-rocker and ...

Abstract: Although the study of vibration isolation has a very long history, when an isolated structure is so flexible that it cannot be properly approximated with a rigid body or a single-degree-of-freedom ...

Abstract: The problem of flexible structure vibration isolation on a flexible foundation is analytically investigated by simplifying the vibration isolation as single axis isolation, which can be realized ...