Abstract: This paper presents a one-degree-of-freedom network of Bennett linkages which can be deployed to approximate a cylindrical surface. The geometry of the unit mechanism is parameterized and its position kinematics is solved. ...

Abstract: We present a novel 4-DOF (degrees of freedom) parallel robot designed for five-axis micromachining applications. Two of its five telescoping legs operate simultaneously, thus acting as an extensible parallelogram linkage, ...

Abstract: We present a novel 4-DOF (degrees of freedom) parallel robot designed for five-axis micromachining applications. Two of its five telescoping legs operate simultaneously, thus acting as an extensible parallelogram linkage, ...

Abstract: A novel family of deployable mechanisms (DMs) is presented. Unlike most such devices, which have one degreeoffreedom (DOF), the proposed DM can be deployed and compacted independently in two or three directions. This widens ...

Abstract: The paper (a first version of this work was presented in Aug. 2014 at ASMEDETC in Buffalo, NY) describes a novel robot gripper for garment handling. The device has been designed, developed, prototyped, and tested within ...

Abstract: The paper describes an innovative fixture created within the AUTORECON project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Program. The fixture is designed to respond to the automotive industry's needs of high modularity ...

Abstract: Among Bricard's overconstrained 6R linkages, the third type has two collapsed configurations, where all joint axes are coplanar. This paper presents a one-degree-of-freedom network of such linkages. Using the two coplanar ...