This is the proceedings of ARK 2018, the 16th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, that was organized by the Group of Robotics, Automation and Biomechanics (GRAB) from the University of Bologna, Italy.
ARK are international symposia of the highest level organized every two years since 1988. ARK provides a forum for researchers working in robot kinematics and stimulates new directions of research by forging links between robot kinematics and other areas.
The main topics of the symposium of 2018 were: kinematic analysis of robots, robot modeling and simulation, kinematic design of robots, kinematics in robot control, theories and methods in kinematics, singularity analysis, kinematic problems in parallel robots, redundant robots, cable robots, over-constrained linkages, kinematics in biological systems, humanoid robots and humanoid subsystems.
Preface.- Theoretical Kinematics.- Kinematic interpretation of the Study quadric's ambient space, by Georg Nawratil.- Input-output Equation for Planar Four-bar Linkages, by John Hayes, Manfred Husty, Martin Pfurner.- Principal Kinematic Inequalities, by Gregory Chirikjian.- Displacement Varieties for Some PUP Linkages, by Jonathan Selig.- Computational Kinematics.- Accurate Computation of Quaternions from Rotation Matrices, by Soheil Sarabandi, Federico Thomas.- Redundancy Parametrization in Globally-Optimal Inverse Kinematics, by Enrico Ferrentino, Pasquale Chiacchio.- Solution for the Direct Kinematics Problem of the General Stewart-Gough Platform by Using Only Linear Actuators' Orientations, by Stefan Schulz, Arthur Seibel, Josef Schlattmann.- Novel Pl?cker Operators and a Dual Rodrigues Formula Applied to the IKP of General 3R Chains, by Bertold Bongardt.- Analytical determination of a sphere inside which the Stewart platform translates without suffering any link interference.- Anirban Nag, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay.- Higher-order relative kinematlói
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