Point charges and polygonal linkages

DOI10.1007/S10883-015-9286-3zbMATH Open1398.70012arXiv1503.04463OpenAlexW1815492236MaRDI QIDQ2364115FDOQ2364115

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)

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.

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

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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)

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