Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications

Preface.- Part I: Mechanism Design.- Morphing Wings and Control Surfaces: A New Approach in Aircraft Design, by Yavuz Yaman.- Designing Human Powered Balers For Straw Bale Construction in Developing Countries: The Case of Haiti, by Carlo Ferraresi, Walter Franco, Giuseppe Quaglia.- Guiding linkages with remote centre of rotation for thermal cutting processes, by Carsten Teichgräber, Jörg Müglitz, Maik Berger.- Structural Synthesis of 2R1T Type Mechanisms for Minimally Invasive Surgery Applications, by Abdullah Yasir, Gökhan Kiper.- 3R1H Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model for Compliant Mechanisms with Inflection Beams, by Yue-Qing Yu, Shun-Kun Zhu.- A Spatial Four-bar Linkage RSPS for Ball-bar to Test R-pair, by Delun Wang, Zhi Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Huimin Dong, Shudong Yu.- Leg Mechanisms Motion Characteristics, by Adriana Comanescu.- Design and Dimensional Optimization of a Novel Walking Mechanism with Firefly Algorithm, by Özgün Selvi, Samet Yavuz.- Part II: Cam Mechanisms.- Improving the kinematics of motion curves for cam mechanisms using NURBS, by Thi Thanh Nga Nguyen, Stefan Kurtenbach, Mathias Hüsing, Burkhard Corves.- Assessment of the Rolling Contact Fatigue, by Monika Hejnova.- The Stress Distribution in the Contact Region of a Cam Mechanism General Kinematic Pair, by Jirí Ondrásek.- Part III: Parallel Manipulators.- 5 DoF Haptic Exoskeleton for Space Telerobotics - Shoulder Module, by Dan Teodor Margineanu, Erwin-Christian Lovasz, Gruescu Corina, Valentin Ciupe, Santra Tatar.- Kinematic design of a tripod parallel mechanism for robotic legs, by Matteo Russo, Marco Ceccarelli.- Parallel manipulators: practical applications and kinematic design criteria.Towards the modular reconfigurable robots, by Alfonso Hernández Frías, Mónica Urizar, Erik Macho, Victor Petuya.- Two-degree-of-freedom spacial parallel manipulator for laser interferometry-based Tracker, by Baris Celik, Takaaki Oiwa, Kenji Terabayashi, Junichi Aasama.- Part IV: Control Applications.- Design of Artificial