Representations and identifications of structural and motion state characteristics of mechanisms with variable topologies

Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-40

  Yan, Hong Sen ^a   Kuo, Chin Hsing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mechanisms with variable topologies; Motion homomorphism; Motion state representations; Structural representations; Topological homomorphism

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

MECHANISMS WITH VARIABLE TOPOLOGIES; MOTION HOMOMORPHISM; MOTION STATE REPRESENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL HOMOMORPHISM;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 33646821028     PISSN: 03158977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/tcsme-2006-0003     Document Type: Article

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