Kinematics of Spatial Mechanisms. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: undergraduate kinematics, dynamics, knowledge of matrices and ME 616 . (May be taken concurrently.) Advanced techniques for the dual-number coordinate-transformation matrix modeling to perform the displacement, velocity, static and dynamic force analysis of spatial mechanisms. Applications considered will include shaft couplings, skew four-bars, wobble plates, generalized slider-cranks and robotic manipulators.