Table of Contents
Part I: Applications.- Inherently Balanced Double Bennett Linkage, by Volkert Van der Wijk.- 3D revolute joint with clearance in multibody systems, by Narendra Akhadkar, Vincent Acary, Bernard Brogliato.- Kinematics and Bifurcation of a Twofold-Symmetric 8-bar Linkage, by Zhao Tang, Dimiter Zlatanov, Jian sheng Dai.- A Novel Kinematic Model of Spatial Four-bar Linkage RSPS for Testing Accuracy of Actual R-Pairs with Ball-bar, by Zhi Wang, Delun Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Huimin Dong, Shudong Yu.- Model Reduction Methods for optimal Follow-the-Leader Movements of Binary Actuated, Hyper-Redundant Robots, by Svenja Tappe, Dairong Yu, Jens Kotlarski, Tobias Ortmaier.- Kinematic Design of a Lighting Robotic Arm for Operating Room, by Juan Sebastian Sandoval Arevalo, Laurence Nouaille, Gérard Poisson, Yves Parmantier.- Elastostatic Modelling of a Wooden Parallel Robot, by Lila Kaci, Clément Boudaud, Sébastien Briot, Philippe Martinet.- Towards an autonomous airborne robotic agent, byDaniel Soto-Guerrero, Gabriel Ramírez Torres, Jean-Pierre Gazeau.- Autonomous March Control For Humanoid Robot Animation In A Virtual Reality Environment, by Victor Andaluz, Santiago Guaman, Jorge Sánchez.- Control Based On Linear Algebra For Mobile Manipulators, by Victor Andaluz, Paola Velasco, Edison Sásig, William Chicaiza.- Modeling And Kinematic Nonlinear Control Of Aerial Mobile Manipulators, by Victor Andaluz, Jessica Ortiz, Franklin Silva, Luis Proaño, José Perez, Alex Erazo, Christian Carvajal.- Path Planning Based On Visual Feedback Between Terrestrial And Aerial Robots Cooperation, by Jessica Ortiz Moreano, Víctor Andaluz, Cristhian Zapata, Alex Vega.- Part II: Biomechanics.- Dynamic analysis and control of a Hybrid serial/Cable driven robot for lower-limb rehabilitation, by Mourad Ismail Samir, Lahouar and Lotfi Romdhane.- Kinematic analysis of Active Ankle using computational algebraic geometry, by Shivesh Kumar, Abhilash Nayak, Bertold Bongardt, Andreas Mueller, Frank Kirchner.- Optimization of a Redundant Serial Spherical Mechanism for Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery, by Carl Nelson, Med Amine Laribi, Said Zeghloul.- Kinematic Analysis for a Prostate Biopsy Parallel Robot using Study parameters, by Doina Pisla, Iosif Birlescu, Bogdan Gherman, Paul Tucan, Calin Vaida, Nicolae Plitea, Nicolae Crisan, Corina Radu.- Optimum Walking of the Bioloid Humanoid Robot on a Rectilinear Path, by Alfonso Pamanes, Gabriela Reyes, Jesus Fierro, Victor Nunez.- A new experimental set-up for training multi-parameter gaits, by Sami Bennour, Houssein LAMINE, Lotfi Romdhane.- Part III: Cable Robots.- Comprehensive dynamic study of an unloaded walking within a cable-based gait trainer, by Houssein Lamine, Sami Bennour, Lotfi Romdhane.- A Cable-Driven Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Inspired by the Mirror Therapy, by Lukas Tappeiner, Erika Ottaviano, Manfred Husty.- Computing cross-sections of the workspace of cable-driven parallel robots with 6 sagging cables, by Jean-Pierre Merlet.- Efficient Computation of the Workspace Boundary, its Properties and Derivatives for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, by Andreas Pott.- Application of the Rigid Finite Element Method to the Simulation of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, by Philipp Tempel, Andreas Schmidt, Bernard Haasdonk, Andreas Pott.- Part IV: Cams/Gear.- Evaluating the knot vector to synthesize the cam motion using NURBS, by Thi Thanh Nga Nguyen, Stefan Kurtenbach, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves.- Kinematics of biplanetary epicyclic gears, by Stanislaw Zawislak.- Part V: Optimization.- Dynamic synthesis of a multibody system: a comparative study between genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization techniques, by Mohamed Amine Ben Abdallah, Imed Khemili, Med Amine Laribi, Nizar Aifaoui.- Robust Design Methodology of Topologically optimized components under the effect of uncertainties, by Joshua Amrith Raj, Arshad Javed.- < Part VI: Parallel robots.- Kinematic and dynamic modeling and base inertial parameters determination of the Quadrupteron parallel manipulator, by Behzad Danaei, Alaleh Arian, Mehdi Tale Masouleh, Ahmad Kalhor.- Forward Kinematics of the General Triple-Arm Robot Using a Distance-Based Formulation, by Federico Thomas, Nicolas Rojas.- Parallel manipulators in terms of dual Cayley-Klein parameters, by Georg Nawratil.- An Approach for Type Synthesis of Overconstrained 1T2R Parallel Mechanisms, by Chenglin Dong, Haitao Liu, Qi Liu, Tao Sun, Tian Huang, Derek Chetwynd.- Transmission Quality Evaluation for a Class of Four-limb Parallel Schoenflies-motion Generators with Articulated Platforms, by Guanglei Wu, Shaoping Bai, Stéphane Caro.- Study of Redundantly Actuated DELTA-Type Parallel Kinematic Mechanisms, by Burkhard Corves, Seyed Amirreza Shahidi, Michael Lorenz, Sami Charaf Eddine, Mathias Hüsing.- 3-RRR Spherical parallel robot optimization with minimum of singularities, by Abdelbadia Chaker, Asma Jlassi, Abdelfattah Mlika.- 4haptic : A dexterous 4 d.o.fs haptic device based on Delta architecture, by Celestin Preault, Houssem Saafi, Med Amine Laribi, Said Zeghloul.- Error Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of a Planar 3-PRP Parallel Manipulator, by Jayant Mohanta, Santhakumar Mohan, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves.- Determination of workspace volume of parallel manipulators using Monte Carlo method, by Arkadeep Narayan Chaudhury, Ashitava Ghosal.- Kinematics of a 6-RUU Parallel Robots with Reconfigurable Platforms, by Guanglei Wu, Huimin Dong.- On the Motion/Force Transmissibility and Constrainability of Delta Parallel Robots, by Jan Brinker, Burkhard Corves, Yukio Takeda.- A Geometrical Approach for the Singularity Analysis of a 3-RRS Parallel Manipulator, by Halil Tetik, Gokhan Kiper.- The Collision-free Workspace of the Tripteron Parallel Robot Based on a Geometrical Approach, by Parnyan Ataei, Mehdi Tale Masouleh, Zolfa Anvarī.- A Novel 3T1R Parallel Manipulator 2PaRSS and Its Kinematics, by Huiping Shen, Guowei Shao, Jiaming Deng, Ting-li Yang.- Multi-objective optimization of a tripod parallel mechanism for a robotic leg, by Matteo Russo, Saioa Herrero, Marco Ceccarelli, Oscar Altuzarra.- Robust Optimization of the RAF parallel robot for a prescribed workspace, by Med Amine Laribi, Abdelfattah Mlika, Lotfi Romdhane , Said Zeghloul.- Optimal Design of N-UU Parallel Mechanisms, by Yuanqing Wu, Marco Carricato.- Robust multi-objective design optimization of the 3-UPU TPM based on the GA-Krawczyk method, by El hraiech Safa, Chebbi Ahmed, Affi zouhaier, Romdhane Lotfi.- Part VII: Planar Robots.- Topology Optimization of a Reactionless Four-bar Linkage, by Sébastien Briot, Alexandre Goldsztejn.- Kinetostatic Analysis and Solution Classification of a Planar Tensegrity Mechanism, by Philippe Wenger, Damien Chablat.- Design Optimization and Accuracy Analysis ofa Planar 2PRP-PRR Parallel Manipulator, by Santhakumar Mohan, Burkhard Corves, Philippe Wenger.- Operation modes of the planar 3-RRR manipulator, by Aravind Baskar, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay.- The Impact of Kinematic Redundancies on the Conditioning of a Planar Parallel Manipulator, by Joao Vitor Fontes, Hiparco Vieira, Maíra da Silva.- Holistic modular multilayer synthesis of planar linkages using parameterized mass properties, by Stefan Heinrich, Maik Berger.- Part VIII: Theoretical Kinematics.- Motion Interpolation in Lie Subgroups and Symmetric Subspaces, by Jon Selig, Yuanqing Wu, Marco Carricato.- Intrusion, Proximity & Stationary Distance, by Paul Zsombor-Murray.- A novel geometric analysis of the kinematics of the 3-RPS manipulator, by Teja Krishna Mamidi, Aravind Baskar, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay.- Constraint equations of inverted kinematic chains, by Manfred Husty, Thomas Stigger.- Local and Full-cycle Mobility Analysis of a 3-RPS-3-SPR Series-Parallel Manipulator, by Abhilash Nayak, Stéphane Caro, Philippe Wenger.- Application of Intersection Theory to Singularity and Motion Mode Analysis of Mechanisms, by Samuli Piipponen, Andreas Mueller, Eero Hyry, Jukka Tuomela.- Rational Parametrization of Linear Pentapod's Singularity Variety and the Distance to it, by Arvin Rasoulzadeh, Georg Nawratil.- Inverse Kinematics of Anthropomorphic Arms Yielding Eight Coinciding Circles, by Bertold Bongardt.- Optimal Synthesis of Overconstrained 6R Linkages by Curve Evolution, by Tudor-Dan Rad, Hans-Peter Schröcker.- The Instantaneous Screw Axis of Motions in the Kinematic Image Space, by Martin Pfurner, Josef Schadlbauer.- A New Insight into the Coupler Curves of the RCCC Four-Bar Linkage, by Federico Thomas, Alba Perez-Gracia.- A Forward Kinematics Data Structure for Efficient Evolutionary Inverse Kinematics, by Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Jianwei Zhang.- Adaptation of the geometric model of a 6 dof serial robot to the task space, by Jose Gutierrez Tapia, Chanal Hélène, Séverine Durieux, Emmanuel Duc.- Differentiation-free Taylor approximation of finite motion in closed loop kinematics, by Jan De Jong, Andreas Mueller, Johannes van Dijk, Just Herder.- A New Direct Position Analysis Solution for an Over-constrained Gough-Stewart Platform, by Luca Luzi, Nicola Sancisi, Vincenzo Parenti Castelli.- A Study On Constraints Violation In Dynamic Analysis Of Spatial Mechanisms, by Paulo Flores.