Synthesis of Kinematic Chains
The constraint equations of a kinematic chain can be used in reverse to determine the dimensions of the links from a specification of the desired movement of the system. This is termed kinematic synthesis.
Perhaps the most developed formulation of kinematic synthesis is for four-bar linkages, which is known as Burmester theory.
Ferdinand Freudenstein is often called the father of modern kinematics for his contributions to the kinematic synthesis of linkages beginning in the 1950s. His use of the newly developed computer to solve Freudenstein's equation became the prototype of computer-aided design systems.
This work has been generalized to the synthesis of spherical and spatial mechanisms.
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