Many programmers can relate to watching a perfectly calculated toolpath crash into a fixture at 3 AM. The simulation may look ...

Researchers at Disney have devised a kinematics program that lets nonexperts synthesize linkages, geartrains, and the other mechanics necessary to animate mechanical characters. Kinematics software ...

THE following statement and resolution of an elementary optimization problem may be of interest to those who, like me, have never been confident about the optimal speed and posture to adopt when ...

Non-Cartesian actuators are improving applications where they weren't even feasible before. Full definition of their dynamics and kinematics helps designers extract maximum performance from these ...