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Citation
Bruzzone, L. (2007), "Advances in Robot Kinematics. Mechanisms and Motion", Industrial Robot, Vol. 34 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2007.04934eae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Advances in Robot Kinematics. Mechanisms and Motion
Jadran LenarcÏicÏ and B. RothSpringer (www.springer.com)www.springer.com/uk/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=3-40109-22-166262837-0ISBN: 978-1-4020-4940-8£123Publication date: July 28, 2006
Keywords: Robotics, Conferences
This book is the tenth in the series of Advances in Robot Kinematics. It is a collection of 53 articles discussed at the tenth international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, which was held in June 2006 in Ljubljana.
The articles are divided in seven chapters: methods in kinematics, properties of mechanisms, humanoids in biomedicine, analysis of mechanisms, workspace and performance, design of mechanisms, motion synthesis and mobility.
There is a wide variety of issues addressed; both purely theoretical and also more application-oriented topics are discussed. Most contributions (32) are focussed on parallel kinematics robots and mechanisms; this sector of kinematics has started to be explored extensively only in the last few decades and today attracts the scientific interest of a large number of researchers.
On the other hand, kinematics of serial mechanisms is a more established area in robotics; in this book serial chains are considered mainly for biomedical applications and human- inspired devices.
Different methods and mathematical approaches are exploited in the proposed works; they include screw algebra, linear algebra, quaternion algebra and line geometry.
The contributors are recognized scientists in the area of robot kinematics, and the scientific level is on the average high.
The book does not provide an organic overview of the problems and fields of robot kinematics, since it is composed of independently developed articles classified by theme and not integrated together. However, as the title suggests, it is a useful and effective update about the state-of-the-art of robot kinematics, and in particular of parallel architectures; the scope is not strictly limited to robotics but is extended to conceptually-related topics, such as biomechanics, orthoses design, and molecular mobility analysis.
Luca BruzzoneDIMEC, Università degli Studi di Genova