Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications

Preface.- Part I: Mechanism Design.- Morphing Wings and Control Surfaces: A New Approach in Aircraft Design, by Yavuz Yaman.- Designing Human Powered Balers For Straw Bale Construction in Developing Countries: The Case of Haiti, by Carlo Ferraresi, Walter Franco, Giuseppe Quaglia.- Guiding linkages with remote centre of rotation for thermal cutting processes, by Carsten Teichgraber, Jorg Muglitz, Maik Berger.- Structural Synthesis of 2R1T Type Mechanisms for Minimally Invasive Surgery Applications, by Abdullah Yasır, Gokhan Kiper.- 3R1H Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Compliant Mechanisms with Inflection Beams, by Yue-Qing Yu, Shun-Kun Zhu.- A Spatial Four-bar Linkage RSPS for Ball-bar to Test R-pair, by Delun Wang, Zhi Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Huimin Dong, Shudong Yu.- Leg Mechanisms Motion Characteristics, by Adriana Comanescu.- Design and Dimensional Optimization of a Novel Walking Mechanism with Firefly Algorithm, by Özgun Selvi, Samet Yavuz.- Part II: Cam Mechanisms.- Improving the kinematics of motion curves for cam mechanisms using NURBS, by Thi Thanh Nga Nguyen, Stefan Kurtenbach, Mathias Husing, Burkhard Corves.- Assessment of the Rolling Contact Fatigue, by Monika Hejnova.- The Stress Distribution in the Contact Region of a Cam Mechanism General Kinematic Pair, by Jiri Ondrasek.- Part III: Parallel Manipulators.- 5 DoF Haptic Exoskeleton for Space Telerobotics - Shoulder Module, by Dan Teodor Margineanu, Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Gruescu Corina, Valentin Ciupe, Santra Tatar.- Kinematic design of a tripod parallel mechanism for robotic legs, by Matteo Russo, Marco Ceccarelli.- Parallel manipulators: practical applications and kinematic design criteria.Towards the modular reconfigurable robots, by Alfonso Hernandez Frias, Monica Urizar, Erik Macho, Victor Petuya.- Two-degree-of-freedom spacial parallel manipulator for laser interferometry-based Tracker, by Baris Celik, Takaaki Oiwa, Kenji Terabayashi, Junichi Aasama.- Part IV: Control Applications.- Design of Artificial Neural Network Predictor for Trajectory Planning of an Experimental 6 DOF Robot Manipulator, by Sahin Yildirim, Burak Ulu.- Fault-Tolerance Experiments with a Kinematically Redundant Holonomic Mobile Robot, by Mehmet Ismet Can Dede, Osman Nuri Sahin, Onur Celik.- Dual-Loop Motion Control for Geometric Errors and Joint Clearances Compensation of a Planar 2PRP-PPR Manipulator, by Santhakumar Mohan, Jayant Kumar Mohanta, Mathias Husing, Burkhard Corves.- The Effects of Admittance Term on Back-drivability, by Ogulcan Isitman, Orhan Ayit, Mehmet Ismet Can Dede.- Design and proposed model reference trajectory, by Sahin Yildirim, Kirakoya Abdoulaye Ben-Aziz.- Part V: Mechanical Transmissions.- Free Vibration and Sensitivity Analysis of RV Reducer, by Yuhu Yang, Chuan Chen.- Sensation. Existence of a Gear Variator is Proved, by Konstantin Ivanov.- Parameterized Substructure Model of PGT for Finite Element Contact Analysis, by Huimin Dong, Chu Zhang, Zhang Jili, Delun Wang.- On the Impact of Transmission Error on the Dynamic Behavior of Geared-Linkages, by Domenico Mundo, Shadi Shweiki, Piervincenzo Catera.- Effect of the Coil Shape on Magnetic Field of an Electromagnet for Contactless Power Transmission to Microrobots, by Nail Akçura, Abdulkareem Alasli, Levent Çetin.- Part VI: Dynamics of Machinery.- The Edge of Chaos in Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanism, by Z.-H. Liu, Jin Xie, Y. Chen.- Dynamics of Orthogonal Mechanism of Vibrating Table in View of Friction, by Zharilkassin Iskakov, Kuatbay Bissembayev, Nutpulla Jamalov.- Design of Neural Network Predictor for Vibration Analysis of a Drill Column Machine During Drilling Plastic Work-Pieces, by Sahin Yildirim, Emir Esim.- Railway Vehicle Model Developed by ASELSAN, by Mustafa Nicem Tanyeri, Murat Gultekin.- Author Index.