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Spherical Four-Bar Mechanism

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From Sect. 5.4.1 it is known that the spherical four-bar mechanism or briefly spherical four-bar is a special mechanism RCCC. Figure 18.1a is a copy of Fig. 5.4. The four-bar has four revolute joints the axes of which intersect in a single point 0. The links are shown as arcs of great circles on the unit sphere about 0.

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Wittenburg, J. (2016). Spherical Four-Bar Mechanism. In: Kinematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48487-6_18

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