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

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...