This paper presents a new Monte Carlo method to calculate the workspace of robot
manipulators, which we called the Gaussian Growth method. In contrast to classical brute …

The present paper is about a detailed review of planar parallel manipulators. Planar parallel
manipulators have three degrees of freedom, one linear motion along the X-direction, one …

This article proposes a numerical method for the kinematic path modeling of retractable roof
structures based on the concept of kirigami. The kinematics of origami structures have been …

Educational software for the kinematic analysis of planar and spatial mechanisms is
presented in this article. This general‐purpose kinematic software has been developed as a …

A reconfigurable robotic system permits multiple configurations having different
characteristics, using mostly modularized building blocks. The goal of this paper is to …

A method for joint trajectory planning of kinematically redundant parallel manipulators is
presented in this paper. The method is based on the use of feasibility maps that allow the …

It is well known that there exist interior barriers within the boundaries of the workspace of
redundant robots. These interior barriers, which are drastically affected by kinematic …

Reconfigurable parallel manipulators combine the properties of parallel manipulators with
high flexibility. However, the workspace of parallel manipulators is, compared to serial …

Scheme design is an important creative stage of product design. How to analyze, compare
and evaluate different design schemes qualitatively and quantitatively is an open problem to …

CAD environments provide powerful tools for graphical programming and geometric feature
handling. This paper explores this potential for robotics applications by presenting a set of …