Kinematical analysis of overconstrained and underconstrained mechanisms by means of computational algebraic geometry (Q2510290)

The authors present a global analysis of mechanisms using an algebraic geometry approach. This methodology enables the authors to explain exceptional phenomena which can occur in mechanism kinematics -- particularly with over-constrained and under-constrained systems. Although several physical systems are discussed, the paper is mathematical in nature and thus more likely to be of interest to theoretical kinematicians than to mechanism designers.