What is it about?

A successful manipulator design with extended features when considering reduction in active degrees of freedom in a machine would lead to specific sub-workspace with improved accuracy, improved reliability and lower cost.

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Why is it important?

because performance of the robot can be function of the number of degrees of freedom activated depending on the function the robot is assigned.

Perspectives

Think about having multiple DOF that are programmable.

Professor Samir Mekid
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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This page is a summary of: Concept of dependent joints in functional reconfigurable robots, Journal of Engineering Design and Technology, July 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jedt-10-2012-0044.
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