New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Preface.- Mechanics of robots 1.- Calculation of the ball raceway interferences due to manufacturing errors and their influence on the friction moment in four-contact-point slewing bearings, by Iker Heras, Josu Aguirrebeitia and Mikel Abasolo.- Meshing Analysis for TA Worm Drive, by Yaping Zhao.- Trade-Off for Space Mechanisms Actuator ¿Technology via a General Purpose Language and ¿Domain Specific Simulations Framework, by Manolo Omiciuolo, Kristin Paetzold, Matthias Baader, Markus Thiels and Klaus Peter Foerster.- Tolerance Analysis of Serial Manipulators with Decoupled and Non-decoupled Dynamics, by Jiali Xu, Jean-Paul Le Baron and Vigen Arakelian.- Mechanism Analysis 1.- Mobility analysis of coupler-driven planar four-bar linkages, by Shaoping Bai.- On the dynamic equivalence of planar mechanisms, an inertia decomposition method, by Jan De Jong, Johannes Van Dijk and Just Herder.- Determination of a Rigid Body Orientation by Means of Indirect Measurements, by Irina Gavrilovich, Sébastien Krut, Marc Gouttefarde and François Pierrot .- Algebraic Analysis of a New Variable-DOF 7R Mechanism, by Martin Pfurner and Xianwen Kong.- Overconstrained Single Loop Four Link Mechanisms with Revolute and Prismatic Joints, by Martin Pfurner, Thomas Stigger and Manfred L. Husty.- Parallel manipulators 1.- Planar Stewart Gough platforms with quadratic singularity surface, by Bernd Aigner and Georg Nawratil.- Forward Kinematic Analysis of the 3-RPRS Parallel Manipulator, by Anirban Nag, Santhakumar Mohan and Sandipan Bandyopadhyay.- Computing the safe working zone of a 3-RRS parallel manipulator, by Dhruvesh Patel, Rohit Kalla, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay and Gökhan Kiper.- Comparison of 3-RPS and 3-SPR Parallel Manipulators based on Kinematic Performance, by Abhilash Nayak, Latifah Nurahmi, Philippe Wenger and Stéphane Caro.- On the workspace representation and determination of spherical parallel robotic manipulators, by Khaled Arrouk, Belhassen-Chedli Bouzgarrou and Grigore Gogu.- Tensegrity mechanisms.- Compliant Gripper Based on a Multistable Tensegrity Structure, by Susanne Sumi, Valter Böhm, Florian Schale and Klaus Zimmermann.- Compliant Multistable Tensegrity Structures with Simple Topologies, by Valter Böhm, Susanne Sumi, Tobias Kaufhold and Klaus Zimmermann.- Toward the control of tensegrity mechanisms for variable stiffness applications: a case study, by Quentin Boehler, Salih Abdelaziz, Marc Vedrines, Philippe Poignet and Pierre Renaud .- Kinematic Analysis of a Continuum Parallel Robot, by Oscar Altuzarra, Mikel Diez, Javier Corral, Gennaro Teoli and Marco Ceccarelli.- Mechanics of robots 2.- A New Formulation for Spatial Revolute Joints with Clearance, by Filipe Marques, Fernando Isaac, Nuno Dourado and Paulo Flores.- Efficiency Assessment in Spur Gears with Shifting and Profile Modifications, by Alberto Diez-Ibarbia, Alfonso Fernandez-Del-Rincon, Miguel Iglesias, Ana De-Juan, Pablo Garcia and Fernando Viadero.- Motion design considering moment of inertia, by Sören Schulze, Carsten Teichgräber and Maik Berger.- Recent Developments on Cylindrical Contact Force Models with Realistic Properties, by Fernando Isaac, Filipe Marques, Nuno Dourado and Paulo Flores.- On the Determination of the Meshing Stiffness and the Load Sharing of Spur Gears, by José I. Pedrero, Miguel Pleguezuelos and Miryam B. Sánchez.- Industrial and non-industrial applications 1.- Winmecc: Software for the Analysis of Planar Mechanisms, by Antonio Ortiz, Juan Antonio Cabrera, Fernando Nadal and Alex Bataller.- Manipulator Motion Planning in Redundant Robotic System for Fiber Placement Process, by Jiuchun Gao, Anatol Pashkevich and Stéphane Caro.- Free and Open Source Software Applications for Education of TMM Discipline in Bauman University, byAndrei Vukolov.- A Novel One-DoF Gravity Balancer Based on Cardan Gear Mechanism, by Yu-Chun Hung and Chin-Hsing Kuo.- Galvanometer laser scanning: Custom-made i.…