Computational Kinematics '95 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Kinematics Held in Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 1995

The trends and progress attained in computational kinematics over a broad class of problems are grouped into six parts describing the main themes: kinematics algorithms, discussing kinematics problems in light of their solution algorithms; kinematics of mechanisms, studying problems related to specific mechanisms; singularities; workspace, discussing the determination of the workspace of given mechanisms; parallel manipulators; motion and grasp planning, touching on computational geometry. The volume contains a representative sample of the most modern techniques available for kinetics problems, including techniques based on recent advances in algebraic geometry. Audience: Researchers, graduate students and practising engineers in work relating to kinematics, robotics, machine design and computer science.Ravani, Bahram is the author of 'Computational Kinematics '95 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Kinematics Held in Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 1995' with ISBN 9780792336730 and ISBN 0792336739.