Videos

Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms Title Video

Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms Title Video

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This animation was prepared by Yang Liu of a walking machine designed by Mark Plecnik. This is the title video for my new book Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanism: A project based approach.

The book contains 82 color figures and 30 animations. It is available as an iBook and a Kindle Interactive book on April 7, 2019.

The print version is available now on Amazon.com and the animations are available on the Kinematic Synthesis of Mechanisms YouTube Playlist.

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UCI’s 2016 Mini-Baja Vehicle

UCI’s 2016 Mini-Baja Vehicle

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You can follow the UCI race team at the web links:

This video shows the initial testing of UCI’s entry for the 2016 SAE Mini-Baja competition.

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Micro-Linkages for a Compliant Material

Micro-Linkages for a Compliant Material

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Lucas Shaw and Prof. Jonathan Hopkins show the micro-architecture of an actively compliant material. Micro-actuators within the unit cells of an assembly are coordinated to reshape the assembly as desired. This was presented as part of the 2015 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences in Boston, MA, August 2-5. The video below shows what this assembly can do.

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An Interesting Planar Robot at Laval

An Interesting Planar Robot at Laval

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Students of Prof. Clement Gosselin at the Laval University Robotics Laboratory demonstrate a four-degree of freedom planar robot. I particularly like the demonstration of its use as a gripper that does a cartwheel just for fun.

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Tensegrity Robotics at UC Berkeley

Tensegrity Robotics at UC Berkeley

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Students in Professor Alice Agogino’s Berkeley Emergent Space Technologies Laboratory, the BEST Lab, working on motion planning for their tensegrity robot.

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Origami Art at BYU

Origami Art at BYU

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Mechanical engineering students in Prof. Larry Howell’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Group designed and constructed this kinetic structure for the BYU Museum of Art. It illustrates paper folding known as origami.

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Sorry: Earth Day 2015

Sorry: Earth Day 2015

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Change for Balance filmed this video for Earth Day 2015 with Prince EA. The postscript is footage of Prince EA deep inside the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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2014 Energy Invitational Video

2014 Energy Invitational Video

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As preparations continue for the 2015 UCI Energy Invitational, here is a reminder of last year’s event.

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Another version of the six-bar folding linkage

Another version of the six-bar folding linkage

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This is a little more compact version of the six-bar folding linkage that Kaustubh Sonawale found using MechGen 3.0.

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Six-bar linkage folds a structure

Six-bar linkage folds a structure

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This six-bar linkage was designed to deploy and stow a structure. It was developed by Kaustubh Sonawale to demonstrate the capabilities of MechGen 3.0.

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