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Machine and Mechanism Theory documentation

Course contents:

  • Lesson 1: Basic concepts on Mechanisms
    • Definitions
    • Links and joints
    • Four bar linkage
    • Six bar linkage
    • Other well-known mechanisms
    • Determining the d.o.f. count
    • DOF solved problems
    • Problems: Determine kinematic chain
  • Lesson 3: Rigid body dynamics. Analytical methods.
    • Introduction to Dynamics
    • Particle dynamics
    • Rigid solid dynamics
    • Inertia calculation in 2D
    • Equations of motion
    • Angular momentum and balancing
    • D’Alembert principle
    • Problems
  • Lesson 9: Kinematics of Robots
    • Rotation and translation transformations
    • Robot Forward Kinematics Simulator
  • Bibliography
  • Credits
  • .md

Links and joints

Contents

  • Links and joints definitions
  • Degree one (I) joints
  • Degree two (II) joints

Links and joints#

Links and joints definitions#

Kinematic joint definition
  • Two adjacent bodies.

  • In permanent contact.

  • With relative motion between between them. The number of d.o.f. allowed by such relative motion defines the joint degree.

Degree one (I) joints#

Revolute:

Prismatic:

Helical:

Degree two (II) joints#

Cylindrical:

Rotation + translation:

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Four bar linkage

Contents
  • Links and joints definitions
  • Degree one (I) joints
  • Degree two (II) joints

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