Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics

Preface.- Operation Modes in Lower-Mobility Parallel Manipulators, by Josef Schadlbauer, Latifah Nurahmi, Manfred Husty, Philippe Wenger and Stéphane Caro.- Geometric Contributions to the Analysis of 2-2 Wire Driven Cranes, by Manfred Husty and Paul Zsombor-Murray.- Design of Cable-Driven Parallel Robots with Multiple Platforms and Endless Rotating Axes, by Philipp Miermeister and Andreas Pott.- Two Gradient-Based Control Laws on SE(3) Derived from Distance Functions, by Jan Maximilian Montenbruck, Gerd S. Schmidt, Andrés Kecskeméthy and Frank Allgöwer.- Invariant Properties of the Denavit-Hartenberg Parameters, by Mohammed Daher and Peter Donelan.- Novel Quasi-Passive Knee Orthosis with Hybrid Joint Mechanism, by Martin Huber, Matthew Eschbach, Horea Ilies and Kazem Kazerounian.- Four-Position Synthesis of Origami-Evolved, Spherically Constrained Planar RR Chains, by Kassim Abdul-Sater, Franz Irlinger and Tim C. Lueth.- Free Vibration of Mistuned Aircraft Engine Bladed Discs, by Romuald Rzadkowski and Artur Maurin.- On the Study of the Kinematic Position Errors due to Manufacturing and Assembly Tolerances, by Paulo Flores.- Kinematic Design Problems for Low-Cost Easy-Operation Humanoid Robots, by Marco Ceccarelli.- Numerical design solutions for telescopic manipulators, by Ericka Madrid and Marco Ceccarelli.- A sequentially-defined kinetostatic model of the knee with anatomical surfaces, by Irene Sintini, Nicola Sancisi and Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli.- Designing and Implementing an Autonomous Navigation System Based on Extended Kalman Filter in a CoroBot Mobile, by Gerardo Arturo Vilcahuamán Espinoza and Edilberto Vásquez Díaz.- Kinematic Analysis of a Meso-Scale Parallel Robot for Laser Phonomicrosurgery, by Sergio Lescano, Dimiter Zlatanov, Micky Rakotondrabe and Nicolas Andreff.- Characteristics of a Walking Simulator with Parallel Manipulators, by Dante Elías, Rocío Callupe and Marco Ceccarelli.- Prototype Upper Limb Prosthetic Controlledby Myoelectric Signals Using a Digital Signal Processor Platform, by Ulises Gordillo Zapana, Renée M. Condori Apaza, Nancy I. Orihuela Ordoñez, Alfredo Cárdenas Rivera.- A 3D Foot-Ground Model using Disk Contacts, by Matthew Millard and Andrés Kecskeméthy.- Fitting Useful Planar Four-Bar and Six-Bar Linkages to Over-Specified Tasks, by Brandon Y. Tsuge and J. Michael McCarthy.- On the Requirements of Interpolating Polynomials for Path Motion Constraints, by Jorge Ambrósio, Pedro Antunes and João Pombo.