New books on parallel manipulators

Dear all,

the publishers ITECH based in Vienna have established their so-called Advanced Technology Open Access Platform where the journal papers and scientific books are copiable. This makes these documents available to anyone at anytime, in a sense, this the equivalent of GNU to publising.

They have recently published two interesting books containing the latest scientific trends about parallel robots:

1- Parallel Manipulators, Towards New Applications
ISBN 978-3-902613-40-0
hard cover, 506 pages
Edited by: Huapeng Wu
http://s.i-techonline.com/Book/Parallel-Manipulators-Towards-New-Appl...

2- Parallel Manipulators, New Developments
ISBN 978-3-902613-20-2
hard cover, 498 pages
Edited by: Jee-Hwan Ryu http://s.i-techonline.com/Book/Parallel-Manipulators-New-Developments...

In the first book, you can download the latest article that I have published about parallel manipulator kinematics, namely:
Certified Solving and Synthesis on Modeling of the Kinematics. Problems of Gough-Type Parallel Manipulators with an Exact Algebraic Method

This includes new material and also theoritial information on how the resultant (or dyallitic elimination) can add spurious solutions (making it far from a garanteed method to find all solutions) or the homothopy (or continuation method) can miss some solutions.

Luc Rolland