Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications

1. Morphing Wings and Control Surfaces: A New Approach in Aircraft Design
Yavuz Yaman

2. Designing Human Powered Balers for Straw Bale Construction in Developing Countries: The Case of Haiti
Carlo Ferraresi, Walter Franco, Giuseppe Quaglia

3. Guiding Linkages with Remote Centre of Rotation for Thermal Cutting Processes
Carsten Teichgräber, Jörg Müglitz, Maik Berger

4. Structural Synthesis of 2R1T Type Mechanisms for Minimally Invasive Surgery Applications
Abdullah Yaşır, Gökhan Kiper

5. 3R1H Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Compliant Mechanisms with Inflection Beams
Yue-Qing Yu, Shun-Kun Zhu

6. A Spatial Four-Bar Linkage RSPS for Ball-Bar to Test R-pair
Delun Wang, Zhi Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Huimin Dong, Shudong Yu

7. Leg Mechanisms Motion Characteristics
Adriana Comanescu, Elisabeta Banica, Dinu Comanescu

8. Design and Dimensional Optimization of a Novel Walking Mechanism with Firefly Algorithm
Özgün Selvi, Samet Yavuz

9. Improving the Kinematics of Motion Curves for Cam Mechanisms Using NURBS
Thi Thanh Nga Nguyen, Stefan Kurtenbach, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves

10. Assessment of the Rolling Contact Fatigue
Monika Hejnová

11. The Stress Distribution in the Contact Region of a Cam Mechanism General Kinematic Pair
Jiri Ondrášek

12. 5 DoF Haptic Exoskeleton for Space Telerobotics – Shoulder Module
Dan Margineanu, Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Corina Mihaela Gruescu, Valentin Ciupe, Santra Tatar

13. Kinematic Design of a Tripod Parallel Mechanism for Robotic Legs
Matteo Russo, Marco Ceccarelli

14. Parallel Manipulators: Practical Applications and Kinematic Design Criteria. Towards the Modular Reconfigurable Robots
Alfonso Hernández, Mónica Urízar, Erik Macho, Victor Petuya

15. Two-Degree-of-Freedom Special Parallel Manipulator for Laser Interferometry-Based Tracker
Baris Celik, Takaaki Oiwa, Kenji Terabayashi, Junichi Asama

16. Design of Artificial Neural Network Predictor for Trajectory Planning of an Experimental 6 DOF Robot Manipulator
Şahin Yıldırım, Burak Ulu

17. Fault-Tolerance Experiments with a Kinematically Redundant Holonomic Mobile Robot
Osman Nuri Şahin, Onur Çelik, Mehmet İsmet Can Dede

18. Dual-Loop Motion Control for Geometric Errors and Joint Clearances Compensation of a Planar 2-PRP+1-PPR Manipulator
Santhakumar Mohan, Jayant Kumar Mohanta, Mathias Huesing, Burkhard Corves

19. The Effects of Admittance Term on Back-Drivability
Ogulcan Işıtman, Orhan Ayit, Mehmet İsmet Can Dede

20. Design and Proposed Model Reference Trajectory Control of a Snake like Robot
Åžahin Yildirim, Kirakoya Abdoulaye Ben-Aziz

21. Free Vibration and Sensitivity Analysis of RV Reducer
Yuhu Yang, Chuan Chen

22. Proof of Existence of a Gear Variator as Wheelwork with Constant Engagement of Toothed Wheels
Konstantin S. Ivanov

23. Parameterized Substructure Model of PGT for Finite Element Contact Analysis
Huimin Dong, Chu Zhang, Jili Zhang, Delun Wang

24. On the Impact of Transmission Error on the Dynamic Behavior of Geared-Linkages
Domenico Mundo, Shadi Shweiki, Piervincenzo Catera

25. Effect of the Coil Shape on Magnetic Field of an Electromagnet for Contactless Power Transmission to Microrobots
Abdulkareem Alasli, Nail Akçura, Levent Çetin

26. The Edge of Chaos in Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanism
Zhaohui Liu, Jin Xie, Yong Chen

27. Dynamics of Orthogonal Mechanism of Vibrating Table in View of Friction
Zharilkassin Iskakov, Kuatbay Bissembayev, Nutpulla Jamalov

28. Design of Neural Network Predictor for Vibration Analysis of a Drill Column Machine During Drilling Plastic Work-Pieces
Şahin Yıldırım, Emir Esim

29. Railway Vehicle Model Developed by ASELSAN
Mustafa Nicem Tanyeri, H. Murat Gültekin

Avainsanat: Engineering, Machinery and Machine Elements, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control