LinkageDesignerThe Mechanism Prototyping System
Key Features
LinkageDesigner can calculate the velocity, angular velocity, acceleration, angular acceleration, and higher order derivatives of any links in closed form. The package has extensive support for visualizing and animating linkages, which can be displayed or animated in Mathematica notebooks, or exported to Dynamic Visualizer, LiveGraphics3D, or VRML97. The package comes with electronic documentation, in both PDF and Mathematica Help Browser formats.
Dr. Gábor Erdős, the developer of LinkageDesigner, is a senior research assistant in the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science. Formerly, he was a postdoctoral assistant in the CAD laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. He received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Budapest. He completed his M.Sc. studies in the faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo. He has worked in the field of computer-aided mechanism design and CAD-CAM-CNC integration for many years.
LinkageDesigner is developed and supported by Dr. Gábor Erdős, Bit-Plié 2003 Bt. Bit-Plié 2003 Bt
LinkageDesigner 1.0 requires Mathematica 5.0 or higher and is available for all Mathematica platforms. |
LinkageDesigner is a Mathematica application package for virtual prototyping of linkages. It is designed to analyze, synthesize, and simulate linkages with serial chain, tree, and graph structures. Using the symbolic calculation capabilities of Mathematica, it supports fully parametrized linkage definition and analysis. In LinkageDesigner, kinematic structures (such as linkages, mechanisms, etc.) are represented by kinematic graphs of the linkage, where links are vertices and joints are edges.