Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages

Abstract

THIS is a volume honoring Dean L. M. K. Boeiter of UCLA on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, and it-consists of thirty-four technical papers authored by his students, colleagues, and associates. In view of the number of papers involved, it is obvious that, no attempt toward individual review can be made here. Basically, the papers are divided into four categories: (a) Heat-mass transfer and thermodynamics; (6) Materials, mechanics, and design; (c) Engineering education; and (d) City planning.

Kinematic synthesis of Stephenson III six-bar function generators

“…Also see Hartenberg and Denavit (1964). This yields a set of polynomial equations in the dimensions of the linkage.…”

Geometric Representations and Transformations

“…An alternative to DH parameters is exponential coordinates [22], which simplify some computations; however, determining the parameters in the modeling stage may be less intuitive. A fascinating history of mechanisms appears in [10]. Other texts on kinematics include [1,6,14,17].…”

Dimensional Synthesis of Six-Bar Linkage as a Constrained RPR Chain

“…These design equations can be simplified by cancelling q 2 to obtain four bilinear equations in the four unknowns B x , B y , C x1 , and C y1 . The solution of the design equations is known to yield as many as four real solutions [5]. One of these solutions will be the specified RP chain with fixed pivot B D O and a moving pivot C 1 at infinity.…”