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Recent Advances in Mechanism Design for Robotics

Proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Shaoping Bai

    1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  2. Marco Ceccarelli

    1. Laboratory of Robotics & Mechatronics LARM, University of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy

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  • Dedicated to advanced mechanism design, which is not covered by other books
  • Provides state-of-the-art mechanism and design theories, methods, and applications for robotics
  • Combines mechanisms and robotics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Mechanisms and Machine Science (Mechan. Machine Science, volume 33)

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Linkage and Manipulators

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Finger Mechanisms for Robotic Hands

      • M. Ceccarelli
      Pages 3-13

    3. Dimensional Synthesis of One-Jointed Multi-fingered Hands

      • Alba Perez-Gracia
      Pages 15-26

    4. A Modular Shape-Adaptive Mechanism for Robust Robotic Grasping

      • Carl A. Nelson
      Pages 27-34

    5. Mass Equivalent Dyads

      • V. van der Wijk
      Pages 35-45

    6. A Light Weight Arm Designed with Modular Joints

      • Honggen Fang, Lijie Guo, Shaoping Bai
      Pages 47-54

    7. Dynamic Balancing Conditions of Planar Parallel Manipulators

      • Mario Acevedo, José María Reyes
      Pages 55-64

    8. Design and Characterization of a New 5-DOF Arc Welding Robot

      • T. Li, F. Y. Guo, M. Z. Luo, M. Ceccarelli, X. Liu, S. X. Chen et al.
      Pages 65-75

    9. Optimization of Grinding Parameters for Twist Drill in Biglide Parallel Machine

      • M. I. Kim, Ping Zou
      Pages 77-85

    10. Kinematics and Singularity Analysis of a 3-RRR Planar Hybrid Mechanism

      • Ruiqin Li, Shuiqin He, Yaohong Zhao
      Pages 87-97

    11. A Method to Estimate the Encoder Dependent Repeatability of General Serial Manipulators

      • M. Brandstötter, Ch. Gruber, M. Hofbaur
      Pages 99-110

  3. Innovative Mechanism/Robot and Their Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Designing and Implementing an Interactive Social Robot from Off-the-Shelf Components

      • Zheng-Hua Tan, Nicolai Bæk Thomsen, Xiaodong Duan
      Pages 113-121

    3. Portable Design and Range of Motion Control for an Ankle Rehabilitation Mechanism Capable of Adjusting to Changes in Joint Axis

      • A. Szigeti, Y. Takeda, D. Matsuura
      Pages 123-132

    4. Dynamic Modeling and Torque Distribution of a Climbing Hexapod Robot

      • Dong Liu, Weihai Chen, Zhongcai Pei, Jianhua Wang, Xingming Wu
      Pages 133-144

    5. Development and Simulation of an Automated Twistlock Handling Robot System

      • C. Liang, Y. Zou, I.-M. Chen, M. Ceccarelli
      Pages 145-153

    6. Grinding Methodology Research for Helical Drill Based on the Biglide Parallel Grinder

      • P. Zou, R. Lv, X. J. Gao, F. Li
      Pages 155-162

  4. Actuators and Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Towards Safe Robotic Surgical Systems

      • C. Sloth, R. Wisniewski
      Pages 165-175
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About this book

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, held in Aalborg, Denmark, 2-4 June, 2015. The book contains papers on recent advances in the design of mechanisms and their robotic applications. It treats the following topics: mechanism design, mechanics of robots, parallel manipulators, actuators and their control, linkage and industrial manipulators, innovative mechanisms/robots and their applications, among others. The book can be used by researchers and engineers in the relevant areas of mechanisms, machines and robotics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Shaoping Bai

  • Laboratory of Robotics & Mechatronics LARM, University of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Advances in Mechanism Design for Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics

  • Editors: Shaoping Bai, Marco Ceccarelli

  • Series Title: Mechanisms and Machine Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18126-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18125-7Published: 18 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35561-0Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18126-4Published: 05 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2211-0984

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-0992

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 443

  • Number of Illustrations: 257 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Machinery and Machine Elements, Robotics and Automation, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

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