Abstract
The study of robotic mechanical systems has focused, so far, on serial manipulators. These are the most common systems of their kind, but nowadays by no means the majority. In recent years, other kinds of robotic mechanical systems have been developed, as outlined in Chap. 1. Under alternative robotic mechanical systems we understand here: (a) parallel robots; (b) multifingered hands; (c) walking machines; and (d) rolling robots. A class that is increasingly receiving attention, humanoids, portrays an architecture inspired from the human musculo-skeletal system. This class deserves a study on its own because of the host of control problems that it poses to the roboticist; its kinematics, however, can be studied with the tools developed in this chapter for the first three kinds of systems listed above. For this reason, a section on humanoids is not included here.
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Since all vectors in the 15 coefficients of interest are coplanar, they are regarded as two-dimensional vectors in the display of the 15 coefficients.
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Angeles, J. (2014). Kinematics of Alternative Robotic Mechanical Systems. In: Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems. Mechanical Engineering Series, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01851-5_10
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