Parallel kinematic mechanisms (PKM) have received particular attention due to their higher
stiffness, increased payload capacity, and agility, when compared to their serial …

This paper proposes a method to design reconfigurable parallel mechanisms by applying
reconfigurable platforms. According to the requirements of convenience and reliability, the …

The need to high performance, stability, and dexterity robot is the main motivation to improve
industrial robots, parallel robots are general-purpose industrial robots, that can give all …

This paper presents a novel type of deployable grasping manipulator (DGM), the fingers of
which are constructed of serially connected metamorphic mechanism modules (MMMs) …

Reconfigurable parallel mechanisms (RPMs) have the advantages of high stiffness, good
dynamic performance due to their parallel structures, and can reconfigure themselves into …

This paper presents a planar metamorphic mechanism (PMM) which has three distinct
working phases and a family of metamorphic parallel mechanisms with a PMM as closed …

A new lockable spherical joint is proposed in this paper, and it can be used as a revolute
joint, a universal joint or a spherical joint. Three locking methods are introduced to construct …

In this paper, a spatial metamorphic four-link mechanism (SMM) based on the metamorphic
universal joint is proposed. By adjusting the axis position of the universal joint, three kinds of …

Capturing noncooperative targets in space has great prospects for aerospace application. In
this work, the knuckle unit of a large-scale reconfigurable space multifingered hand …

The current research of reconfigurable parallel mechanism mainly focuses on the
construction of reconfigurable joints. Compared with the method of changing the mobility by …