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A Survey on the Theory of Bonds

Systems and Control 2018-08-10 v1 Algebraic Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

Many researchers tried to understand/explain the geometric reasons for paradoxical mobility of a mechanical linkage, i.e. the situation when a linkage allows more motions than expected from counting parameters and constraints. Bond theory is a method that aims at understanding paradoxical mobility from an algebraic point of view. Here we give a self-contained introduction of this theory and discuss its results on closed linkages with revolute or prismatic joints.

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@article{arxiv.1808.03138,
  title  = {A Survey on the Theory of Bonds},
  author = {Zijia Li and Josef Schicho and Hans-Peter Schröcker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03138},
  year   = {2018}
}