Point charges and polygonal linkages

DOI10.1007/S10883-015-9286-3MaRDI QIDQ2364115zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Siersma, Vladimir Zolotov, Giorgi Khimshiashvili, G. Panina

Publication date 18 July 2017

Published in Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04463

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceconfiguration spaceCoulomb potentialCayley-Menger determinantmechanical linkageCoulomb control

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Control of mechanical systems (70Q05)

Abstract: We investigate the critical points of Coulomb potential of point charges placed at the vertices of a planar polygonal linkage. It is shown that, for a collection of positive charges on a pentagonal linkage, there is a unique critical point in the set of convex configurations which is the point of absolute minimum. This enables us to prove that two controlling charges are sufficient to navigate between any two convex configurations of a pentagonal linkage.

Recommendations

• Coulomb control of polygonal linkages
• Maxwell conjecture and polygonal linkages
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6324500
• Point charges on simple contours
• On the area of a polygonal linkage

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4140804 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5070066 (Why is no real title available?)
• Coulomb control of polygonal linkages
• Critical configurations of planar robot arms
• Cyclic polygons are critical points of area
• Four-body co-circular central configurations
• Invitation to topological robotics
• Systems of quadratic inequalities

Cited in

(6)

• On the area of a polygonal linkage
• On the uniqueness of trapezoidal four-body central configurations
• Coulomb control of polygonal linkages
• Maxwell conjecture and polygonal linkages
• Complex geometry of polygonal linkages
• Triangle diagram, distance geometry and symmetries of Feynman integrals

This page was built for publication: Point charges and polygonal linkages

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2364115)