...Andreas Müller The finite degree of freedom (DOF) of a mechanism is determined by the number of independent loop constraints. In this paper, a method to determine the maximal number of loop closure constraints (which is independent of a specific configuration) of multiloop linkages is introduced...

...Andreas Müller; P.C. López-Custodio; J.S. Dai The local analysis is an established approach to the study of singularities and mobility of linkages. The key result of such analyses is a local picture of the finite motion through a configuration. This reveals the finite mobility at that point...

...Alden D. Yellowhorse; Nathan Brown; Larry L. Howell Linkage origami is one effective approach for addressing stiffness and accommodating panels of finite size in origami models and tessellations. However, successfully implementing linkage origami in tessellations can be challenging. In this work...

... on the idea of dividing the linkage's circuits—i.e., subsets of the configuration space in which a configuration can be continuously transformed to another one—into segments connected by special points because the linkage's circuits are also divided into components. However, in the proposed technique...