A Brief Note on the Concept of Planarity for Kinematic Chains
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Mechanism and Machine Theory
A Brief Note on the Concept of Planarity for Kinematic Chains
Belfiore, N.P.
Vol. 35, Issue 12, pp. 1745 – 1750
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-114X(00)00021-5, Elsevier Science Ldt, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK
Abstract
In this note the concept of planarity is briefly reviewed with the aim of suggesting a unified interpretation of this word as an attribute of the concept of kinematic chain. The lack of a correct and unambiguous meaning of the concept of planar kinematic chain may cause serious misunderstandings nowadays, as in the reported example.