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Kinematic Design of Geared Five-Bar Linkage

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This chapter starts from the discussion of the number of points that a planar four-bar linkage can precisely trace and then proposes a noncircular gear coupled steering mechanism which could strictly follow the Ackermann steering rule compared with the existing four-bar steering linkages.

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  1. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, People’s Republic

    Jingshan Zhao, Zhijing Feng, Ning Ma & Fulei Chu

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Zhao, J., Feng, Z., Ma, N., Chu, F. (2014). Kinematic Design of Geared Five-Bar Linkage. In: Design of Special Planar Linkages. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38448-6_4

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