Preface, SINGULARITY ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL MANIPULATORS, A New Assessment of Singularities of Parallel Kinematic Chains , by Michele Conconi and Marco Carricato, Singularity Analysis through Static Analysis , by J. Hubert and J.-P. Merlet, Constraint Singularities and the Structural Parameters of Parallel Robots , by Grigore Gogu, Forward Kinematics and Singularity Analysis of a 3-RPR Planar Parallel Manipulator , by Xianwen Kong, Geometric Algebra Approach to Singularity of Parallel Manipulators with Limited Mobility , by Tanio K. Tanev, SinguLab - A Graphical User Interface for the Singularity Analysis of Parallel Robots Based on Grassmann-Cayley Algebra , by Patricia Ben-Horin, Moshe Shoham, Stéphane Caro, Damien Chablat and Philippe Wenger, Singularity Analysis of Limited-DOF Parallel Manipulators Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra , by Daniel Kanaan, Philippe Wenger and Damien Chablat, DESIGN OF ROBOTS AND MECHANISMS, On the Design of Fully Constrained Parallel Cable-Driven Robots , by M. Gouttefarde, S. Krut, O. Company, F. Pierot and N. Ramdani, Synthesis of Part Orienting Devices for Spatial Assembly Tasks , by P. Larochelle, Minimum EnergyManipulator Design , by A. Rojas Salgado and Y. Ledezman Rubio, Synthesis and Analysis of a Constrained Spherical Parallel Manipulator , by G.S. Soh and J.M. McCarthy, A Nonholonomic 3-DOF Parallel Robot , by Patricia Ben-Horin and Federico Thomas, 4DOF Parallel Architecture for Laparoscopic Surgery , by Mohammad Aamir Khan, Matteo Zoppi and Rezio Molfino, Flapping-Wing Mechanism for a Bird-Sized UAVs: Design, Modeling and Control , by Ch. Grand, P. Martinelli, J.-B. Mouret and S. Doncieux, Extended Jacobian Inverse Kinematics and Approximation of Distributions , by Mariusz Janiak and Krzysztof Tcho´n, A Screw Syzygy with Applications to Robot Singularity Computation , by J.M. Selig and Peter Donelan, Singularity Robust Jacobian Inverse Kinematics for Mobile Manipulators , by Krzysztof Tcho´n and Lukasz Malek,Robots Based on Assur Group A (3.5) , by Karl Wohlart, Kinematics of Free-Floating Systems through Optimal Control Theory , by G. Le Vey, Genericity Conditions for Serial Manipulators , by Peter Donelan, Alternative Forms for Displacement Screws and Their Pitches , by I.A. Parkin, MOTION PLANNING AND MOBILITY, Time-Invariant Strategies in Coordination of Human Reaching , by Satyajit Ambike and James P. Schmiedeler, Mobility and Higher Order Local Analysis of the Configuration Space of Single-Loop Mechanisms , by A. Müller and J.M. Rico, Optimization of a Test Trajectory for SCARA Systems , by J.-F. Gauthier, J. Angeles and S. Nokleby, Singularity Free Path Planning for Parallel Robots , by Samir Lahouar, Saïd Zeghloul and Lotfi Romdhane, A Comparison between Two Motion Planning Strategies for Kinematically Redundant Parallel Manipulators , by J.A. Carretero, I. Ebrahimi and R. Boudreau, Trajectory Planning of Parallel Manipulators for Global Performance Optimization , by Ofelia G. Alba-Gómez, J. Alfonso Pamanes and Philippe Wenger, Human Motion Reconstruction by Direct Control of Marker Trajectories , by Emel Demircan, Luis Sentis, Vincent De Sapio and Oussama Khatib, PERFORMANCE AND PROPERTIES OF MECHANISMS, New Self-Motions of Parallel Manipulators , by Adolf Karger, Exact Envelope Computation for Moving Surfaces with Quadratic Support Functions , by Margot Rabl, Bert Jüttler and Laureano Gonzalez-Vega, A Compound-Structure Frame for Improving the Performance of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator , by Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy, Gabriele Vassura and Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, Transitions between Multiple Solutions of the Direct Kinematic Problem , by E. Macho, O. Altuzarra, C. Pinto and A. Hernandez, Kinetostatic Performance of a Planar Parallel Mechanism with Variable Actuation , by N. Rakotomanga, D. Chablat and S. Caro, Results on Planar Parallel Manipulators with Cylindrical Singularity Surface , by G. Nawratil, Stiffness Matrix of Compliant Parallel... Mehr