... topological features of the chain Viz., links, Joints and loops. Platform type Robots Multi degree of freedom linkage Mechanisms kinematic chains structural error performance Proceedings of DETC'01 ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information in Engineering...

... This work presents a systematic procedure for completely generating the number of non-isomorphic specialized mechanisms from kinematic chains subject to design constraints for planar mechanisms. By assigning the specific types of members and joints in the available atlas of candidate kinematic...

... of the database of common graphs, including the graphs of kinematic chains, all become easy to realize. Computational complexity analysis shows that, in the field of kinematic chains the approach is much more efficient than McKay’s algorithm which is considered the fastest so far. Our algorithm remains efficient...

.... As kinematic chains can be drawn in different ways, it is difficult to detect similarity in kinematic structures by visual inspection. In the structural synthesis and analysis of kinematic chains the isomorphism problem in chains merits special attention since all the existing methods generate a number...

... of kinematic chains and opened the field of conceptual design of mechanisms [1-4]. Several methodologies for the structural synthesis, conceptual or creative design of mechanisms were proposed before the end of the 20th century [5-11], and with various applications to epicyclic gear trains [12-16], engine...