Four-bar Linkage Synthesis, Two and Three Task Positions

These notes for the Stanford University course ME 322 Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms introduce the synthesis of a four-bar linkages that guide the coupler link through two and three specified task positions.

More notes on Kinematic Synthesis    Also see my book Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms: a project based approach

December 12, 2017.  These notes have been revised to introduce Sandor and Erdman’s formulas for linkage synthesis which solve for the input and output cranks.  This provides a nice pairing with the related equations that are solved for the fixed and moving pivots, directly.