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Kinematics Summer School

Kinematics Summer School

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Profs. Carl Nelson and Anurag Purwar organized a Summer School…
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Introduction to Linkages

Introduction to Linkages

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Please select this link to open the Geogebra Book containing…
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JPL’s ATHLETE Rover Walks, Rolls, and Slides

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The ATHLETE Rover is a mixture of a wheeled rover and a walking…
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Linkage Design for Wing Flapping

Linkage Design for Wing Flapping

Mark Plecnik shows that six-bar function generators can be used…
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Disney Prototyping System

Linkage Synthesis at Disney Research Zurich

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Researchers at Disney Research Zurich provide yet an other design…
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Lamina Emergent Mechanisms

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BYU Professor Larry Howell studies lamina emergent mechanisms,…
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DNA origami mechanisms, Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, Springer 2012

DNA Origami Mechanisms and Machines

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Professors Carlos Castro and Haijun Su have developed what…
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MechGen FG App Makes Design Calculations Easy

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The MechGen iPad App helps you design a link that connects an…
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Shape Changing Linkage

Shape Changing Mechanisms Solve Design Problems

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A design problem that engineers frequently encounter is a curve…
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Demining Training Aids

3D Printed Demining Training Aids

Training people to diffuse landmines and other live ordnance…
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Wearable Robotics Put Spring in Your Step

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Wearable electronics or “wearables” are seen as the next…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Singular Designs is now on-line

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Please see our Singular Designs web-site. We look forward…
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21st Century Kinematics

Workshop on 21st Century Kinematics

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The NSF Workshop on 21st Century Kinematics at the 2012 ASME…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Mechanism and Robotics Notes

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The server in our UCI Robotics and Automation Laboratory has…
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Eight-bar motion amplifier

Eight-bar motion amplifier

Kaustubh Sonawale and Yang Liu worked together on this design…
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Rectilinear Suspension

Rectilinear eight-bar suspension

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This is a design concept for a rectilinear eight-bar suspension.…
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Rectilinear Eight-bar

Rectilinear eight-bar linkage

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This animation was prepared by Yang Liu for a linkage designed…
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Rectilinear Link

Six-bar linkage with rectilinear moving link

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This is an animation of a Watt I six-bar linkage with a translating…
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UCI’s 2013 Fall Design Review

UCI’s 2013 Fall Design Review

Over 80 student teams from across the Samueli School of Engineering…
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California Challenge Tustin

KOCE reports on the California Challenge

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This video is a news report on the UCI California Challenge:…
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Kinematics and Polynomials

Kinematics and Polynomials–available on a Mac

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Until yesterday, my iBooks Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics…
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California Challenge Test Day

Preparing for the California Challenge

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Some of the cars being prepared for the California Challenge…
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Mechanical Characters

Mechanical characters

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Disney Research guides two degree-of-freedom open chains using…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

2013 Solar Decathlon

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Inside Irvine has an article about the 2013 Solar Decathlon…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Introduction to Racecar Engineering

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The UCI summer program Introduction to Racecar Engineering concluded…
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California Challenge Header

The California Challenge at the Solar Decathlon

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The California Challenge joins three energy efficient racing…
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Six-bar linkages

Six-bar Linkage Design for Mechanical Computation

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Our paper Numerical Synthesis of Six-bar Linkages for Mechanical…
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2013 Energy Invitational

2013 Energy Invitational: Video

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Race teams from 20 high schools and colleges competed in energy…
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Ballistic Function

Mechanization of the ballistic function

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This Stephenson III six-bar linkage sets the elevation of…
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2013 EI slideshow

Photo gallery from 2013 Energy Invitational

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Waldron Celebration

Waldron Fest: May 16-17, 2013

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This poster was prepared as a gift to Ken Waldron on his…
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Foothill HS at EI4

Energy Invitational 2013 Photographs

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Photographs from the Energy Invitational 2013 can be seen…
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Mechanical Advantage

Mechanical Advantage

This video from the University of Dayton narrated by Prof. Andrew…
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Retractable handle

Retractable handle

This six-bar linkage was developed at the request of a designer…
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CSUN FSAE race team

CSUN FSAE joins the 2013 Energy Invitational

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The California State University Northridge Formula SAE race…
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CSULA supermileage race team

CSULA Supermileage joins 2013 Energy Invitational

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The California State University Los Angeles supermileage…
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CSULA FSAE race car

CSULA FSAE to compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational

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The California State University Los Angeles Formula SAE race…
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UC Davis racecar

UC Davis to compete at the 2013 Energy Invitational

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The UC Davis race team will compete at the 2013 Energy…
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2013 UCI race team

Zeta on display at UCI’s Energy Invitational Test Day

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2013 UCI race team with Zeta, our entry for the 2013 FSAE…
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2013 Energy Invitational Medal

2013 Energy Invitational Medal

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This is the medal for our 2013 Energy Invitational, which…
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Energy Invitational Test Day 5-4-2013

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  Saturday, May 5, UCI hosted seven local high school…
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Tensegrity Linkage

Tensegrity Linkage

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This is a design concept that uses tensegrity beam elements…
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Veyron W16

W16 Veyron engine

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This animation shows the W16 Bugatti Veyron engine with four…
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V8 Valves

Cam actuation in a V8 engine

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This animation shows the operation of the cam shaft, lifters…
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Diesel Engine

Diesel engine animation

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This animation shows the part by part assembly of a four cylinder…
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Engine animations

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The web-site AnimatedEngines.com provides animations of a variety…
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Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics

Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics

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My 1990 book is now on-line as an iBook. It is available…
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Kempe Linkages

Translational Linkages from Kempe

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These linkages guide a platform in straight-line translation.…
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Kassim Car Door

An RSSR-TS Car Door Linkage

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Kassim Abdul-Sater provides this CATIA animation of a spatial…
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Ganson Sculpture

Kinetic Sculptures by Arthur Ganson

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This is a video montage of kinetic sculptures by Arthur Ganson…
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Spherical Car Door Linkage

Spherical Watt I six-bar up close

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This view shows the operation of the spherical Watt I six-bar…
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Spherical Car Door

Spherical Watt I six-bar linkage

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The movement of this car door is guided by a spherical Watt I…
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Six-bar Function Generator

Stephenson II six-bar linkage function generator

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Mark Plecnik designed this Stephenson II function generator by…
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Plecnik Art

Mark Plecnik’s Art Project

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Mark Plecnik designed this system to illustrate the movement…
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Svoboda Computing Mechanisms

A. Svoboda: Computing Mechanisms and Linkages

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Select this link to download a .pdf version of A. Svoboda,…
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Kempe Straight Line

A. B. Kempe: How To Draw A Straight Line

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Select this link to download a .pdf version of A. B. Kempe,…
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Cameron Turner’s Wheelbarrow Linkage

Cameron Turner’s Wheelbarrow Linkage

Cameron Turner designed a four-bar and a six-bar linkage to assist…
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Aileron Linkage

Colin Sledge’s Aileron Linkage

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Colin Sledge designed this linkage to guide an airfoil section…
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Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage

Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage

Brendan Smith designed this six-bar linkage to guide a big-screen…
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Adam Shutt’s Automotive Spoiler Linkage

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Adam Shutt designed this six-bar linkage to guide the movement…
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bookcase linkage

Yang Liu’s Bookcase Linkages

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Yang Liu designed a four-bar and a six-bar linkage to guide a…
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Seasons greetings

2012 Happy Holidays

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From my family to yours, all the blessings of the season.
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Solar Airplane

MSE Solar Airplane

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Most all of the Materials Science Engineering majors join in…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

2012 Fall Design Review: EECS Posters

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The Posters for the Electric Engineering and Computer Science…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

2012 Fall Design Review: BME Posters

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The Posters for the Biomedical Engineering Senior Projects that…
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2012 Fall Design Revew

2012 Fall Design Review: MAE Posters

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The Posters for the Mechanical and Aerospace Senior Project that…
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Kassim Eightbar

Kassim’s Eight-bar Linkage

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Kassim Abdul-Sater designed this eight-bar linkage to guide a…
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Six-bar folding handle

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Siqi Shi designed this six-bar linkage to guide a folding handle…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

2012 UCI Fall Design Review

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Please save the date of Friday, December 7, 2012 to join us at…
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Flower linkage

Six-bar flower

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Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals…
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Butterfly six-bar

Six-bar butterfly

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Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar linkage to guide the wings…
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Another Flower

Another four-bar linkage flower

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Mohamed Ali prepared this video of the four-bar linkage he designed…
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MechGen Flower

A four-bar linkage flower

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Cameron Turner prepared this video of his four-bar linkage flower.…
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MechGen Four-Bar HW

Four-bar linkage design using Mech Gen

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This is the first assignment in my graduate mechanism synthesis…
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OSU Mechanism

Shape-morphing linkages

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This is an example of a shape-morphing linkage resulting from…
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Spare Tire Linkage

Spare Tire Deployment for a Pickup Truck

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This four-bar linkage was designed by Kaustubh Sonawale using…
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UCI Energy Invitational 2013

UCI Energy Invitational 2013

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Please join us on May 11, 2013 for the UCI Energy Invitation…
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Bolt Insertion Six-bar Linkage

Bolt Insertion Six-bar Linkage

This linkage was designed to guide a powered screw driver through…
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Rice Transplanter Six-bar

Rice Transplanter Six-bar

This is a revised version of the rice transplanter linkage designed…
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Icon A5 Wing Deployment Spherical Linkage

Icon A5 Wing Deployment Spherical Linkage

This spherical four-bar linkage was designed by Kaustubh Sonawale…
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Spherical Four-bar Linkage Design: Mech Gen 4

Spherical Four-bar Linkage Design: Mech Gen 4

This version of Mechanism Generator uses five orientations of…
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Bobbin Linkage for a Rotating Weaver

Bobbin Linkage for a Rotating Weaver

This linkage is designed to guide the bobbin thread of a rotating…
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Workshop Schedule: 21st Century Kinematics

Workshop Presentations: 21st Century Kinematics

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The NSF Workshop on 21st Century Kinematics at the 2012 ASME…
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Icon A5 spherical four-bar wing linkage

Icon A5 spherical four-bar wing linkage

This shows the wing movement of the Icon A5 as guided by a spherical…
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Six-bar gripper with fine adjustment

Six-bar gripper with fine adjustment

This is a robotic gripper designed by Andrea Carli and Kaustubh…
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Workshop Schedule: 21st Century Kinematics

21st Century Kinematics: Workshop Schedule

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Here is the schedule for the IDETC/NSF Workshop on 21st Century…
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Cover 21st Century Kinematics

Workshop on 21st Century Kinematics: The Book

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The presenters for the 2012 IDETC/NSF Workshop on 21st Century…
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Grant Poster

MechGen Poster for NSF

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This is the poster describing MechGen that Kaustubh and Mark…
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Design Exchange

Design Exchange and HCD Connect

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Interesting examples of web-sites designed to share information…
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Design Thinking

The d.School and Design Thinking

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In this Freudenstein Memorial Lecture, Bernard Roth presents…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Kinetic Art

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT2GmuWWa9U This is is an…
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5-SS Steering Linkage

5-SS Steering Linkage

This steering linkage is designed to increase the track, decrease…
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2012 Energy Invitational

2012 UCI Energy Invitational Video

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  Here is a rough cut of a video of the 2012 UCI Energy…
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EI3 Testing

UCI Vehicle Test Run for EI3

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  Andre Aranez prepared this video showing the test runs…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

UCI’s CNG racecar “Delta” is preparing for EI3

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UCI's CNG racecar "Delta" is being readied for competition…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

UCI’s FSAE racecar “Epsilon” to compete at EI3

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UCI's race team will field its gasoline powered FSAE vehicle…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

UCI’s Electric racecar to compete at EI3

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UCI's electric racecar "Gamma" has an electric motor at each…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Cal Poly Pomona to compete at EI3

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The hybrid race team from California State Polytechnic University…
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Los Alamitos vehicle

Los Alamitos HS race team to join 2012 EI3

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The Los Alamitos HS race team has been invited to the 2012…
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Esperanza Vehicle 2

Esperanza HS race team preparing for EI3

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The Esperanza HS race team has been invited to the 2012 Energy…
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