... the reconfigurable limbs. The paper further presents a mobility-change condition to construct a metamorphic mechanism with the reconfigurable limbs. This gives a family of metamorphic parallel mechanisms that have the facility to change mobility in the range of 3– 6. A further family of metamorphic parallel...

...Xilun Ding; Yi Yang The traditional artifacts are very popular to play with for their magic tricks and these transformations contain potential theory of mechanisms. The assembly-circles artifact is a metamorphic mechanism which can change its configuration and shape through the motion of joints...

...Liping Zhang; Delun Wang; Jian S. Dai A methodology for synthesis and configuration design of metamorphic mechanisms is developed in this paper based on biological modeling and genetic evolution with biological building blocks. The goal is to conceive an appropriate source-metamorphic-mechanism...

... of the metamorphic palm. multifingered robotic hand robotic palm spherical mechanisms metamorphic mechanism geometry analysis synthesis The open-loop kinematic chain of the metamorphic hand 27 10 2005 02 11 2006 approximation theory curve fitting geometry manipulator...

...Jian S. Dai; John Rees Jones Metamorphic mechanisms form a class of mechanisms that has the facilities to change configuration from one kind to another with a resultant change in the number of effective links and mobility of movement. This paper develops formal matrix operations to describe...