Kinematics and Robot Design I, KaRD2018

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: 3D printers; 6-UCU kind Gough-Stewart platform; accuracy analysis; adaptive; aerial robotics; balancing; belt stiffness; cable driven robot; conditioning index; counterweight; dimensional synthesis; direct kinematics; discrete modeling; dual quaternions; dual-tilting; Duporcq manipulator; dynamic system modeling; flexible robotics; flight control; friction ratio; hardware in the loop; hexapod; inverse kinematics; kinematic constraints; kinematic optimisation; kinematics; kinetostatic performances; manipulators; mechanism; mechatronic design; mechatronic system; mechatronic systems; multi-objective evolutionary algorithms; nonlinear flexible beams; NSGA-II; optimal design; optimal preshaping input; optimization; over-actuation; parallel kinematic machine; parallel robot; performance index; plane-symmetric motion; projective angles; quadcopters; reconfigurable joint; robot; robotics; rotorcraft; scale geometry; self-motion; serpentine motion; Shoenflies-motion generator; snake robot; snake scale; spacecraft; spatial symmetric rolling; spherical PKM; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; tilting rotors; timing belt; trajectory planning; UAVs; underactuated robots; viability; Wrench Exertion Capability
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-1019-4
• ISBN: 9783036510194; 3036510192; 9783036510187; 3036510184

This volume collects the papers published on the Special Issue “Kinematics and Robot Design I, KaRD2018” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KARD), which is the first issue of the KaRD Special Issue series, hosted by the open access journal “MDPI Robotics”. The KaRD series aims at creating an open environment where researchers can present their works and discuss all the topics focused on the many aspects that involve kinematics in the design of robotic/automatic systems. Kinematics is so intimately related to the design of robotic/automatic systems that the admitted topics of the KaRD series practically cover all the subjects normally present in well-established international conferences on “mechanisms and robotics”. KaRD2018 received 22 papers and, after the peer-review process, accepted only 14 papers. The accepted papers cover some theoretical and many design/applicative aspects.