Five-bar motion and path generators with variable topology for motion between extreme positions

On Planar Five-bar Motion Generation with a Driver Torque Constraint

“…Recent contributions include the works of Musa, Russell and Sodhi (1) (2) that consider motion generation of adjustable planar five-bar motion generators with prescribed rigid-body positions and rigid-body positions with tolerances. The works of Balli and Chand (3) (4) introduce a complex number method for the synthesis of a planar five-bar motion generator with prescribed timing and a method to synthesize a planar five-bar mechanism of variable topology type with transmission angle contol. Nokleby and Podhorodeski (5) presented an optimization method to synthesize Grashof five-bar mechanisms.…”

Synthesis of a Planar Five-Bar Mechanism Consisting of Two Binary Links Having Two Offset Tracing Points for Motion Between Two Extreme Positions

“…Later on both graphical as well as analytical methods have been employed to determine several solutions to such problems [3][4][5]. More recently, the synthesis of planar seven-bar mechanism was carried out for motion between two extreme positions using analytical methods and complex number techniques [6][7][8][9][10].…”

Design of a type of deployable/retractable mechanism using friction self-locking joint units

“…Gan et al [5] presented two types of joints that can be used to construct metamorphic parallel mechanisms. Balli and Chand [6,7] proposed a method for the synthesis of five-bar motion with variable topology between the extreme positions. The MVTs and metamorphic mechanisms have been studied using many methods, including the matrix representation method [8] and the topological graph method [9][10][11].…”