Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the most widely utilized additive manufacturing
techniques by virtue of its numerous merits, such as easy operation, low cost, low energy …

In recent years, new revolutionary paradigms generally indicated using the term Industry 4.0,
have been conceived and are progressively applied in several manufacturing systems to …

Efficient and precise processing of large-scale parts is an uprising problem in industry. In
this paper, a method to polish large-scale wind turbine blades using hybrid mobile robots is …

Automated fibre placement (AFP) systems have successfully intensified the demand for high-
quality composite component manufacturing in both the military and civilian fields. One of …

The low stiffness of series robots limits their application in high-load precision
manufacturing, such as automated fiber placement (AFP). This paper presents a stiffness …

Toolpath smoothing is an important approach to improve robots' operational stability and
machining quality. Nowadays, the corner rounding smoothing and curve fitting smoothing …

This paper proposes a two translational and two rotational (2T2R) four-degrees-of-freedom
(DOF) parallel kinematic mechanism (PKM) designed as a knee rehabilitation and diagnosis …

This paper deals with the kinematic optimization of a five degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) spatial
parallel mechanism with three kinematic chains. Inspired by the structure of the icosahedron …

This paper deals with the constraint-based design, optimum design and reconfiguration
strategy of a 3-RPS parallel manipulator. Some design conditions related to the base and …

A novel family of extendable kinematic chains, termed dual scissor-like mechanisms (D-
SLiM), is proposed in this paper. The chains, which generally have two translational degrees …