Kinematics Summer School

Profs. Carl Nelson and Anurag Purwar organized a Summer School on Kinematic Theory at the University at Buffalo, New York as part of the 2014 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences. Please select this link to get access to all of the talks: Kinematics Summer School.

Select this link for a YouTube playlist of the videos of each presentation.  

My lecture on the synthesis of six-bar and eight-bar linkages is the third item on the playlist.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYGbV7mIzkc[/youtube]

You can access a pdf of my talk at the link: Synthesis of Planar Six-bar and Eight-bar Linkages.

Among these is a nice presentation by Anurag Purwar on Quaternions and Clifford Algebras.

Course Notes

I am pleased to provide these notes that I have used in my Theory of Machines (Mechanisms and Robotics) classes over the past years.

• Motor Torque and Power: A copy of my notes on DC motor torque and power can be downloaded at the link:
  http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-1.pdf
  
  

  Motor Torque and Power

• Four-Bar Linkage (4R Quadrilateral): The four-bar linkage is a basic machine component. It comes in two primary forms the 4R quadridlateral and the slider-crank. Here are my notes for the analysis of the 4R quadrilateral.
  http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-2.pdf
  
  

  Four-bar linkage analysis

• The Slider-Crank Linkage: The slider-crank is an important mechanism with a wide range of applications. Here are my notes on its kinematic analysis.
  http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-3.pdf
  
  

  Slider-crank analysis

• Elementary Robotics: The basic properties of robots can developed by studying planar serial chains. Select this link for my notes on elementary robotics:
  http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-5.pdf
  
  

  Elementary Robotics

• Cam and Follower Systems: My class notes on cam-follower systems can be downloaded at the link: http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-Cams2.pdf
  

  Lecture notes on cam-follower systems

• Geometric Dimensions and Tolerances: This is a link to notes on Geometric Design and Tolerancing by Prof. Graeme Britton of Raffles Design Institute, Singapore:
  http://www.docin.com/p-6099896.html
  
  

  Prof. Britton's Notes on GD&T

  A pdf version of Prof. Britton’s lecture is available at:
  http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/GDandT.pdf