Triptyc on solving the parallel robot FKP

Dear all,

I would like to inform you that my last journal paper has been published in September. In this article, I write a synthesis on modeling for exact solving of the Forward Kinematics Problem applied on the general parallel robots. This closes a triptyc on the subject of solving the FKP and they correspond the the first three chapters of my PhD thesis.  They were published in the excellent journal Advanced Robotics.

The explored exact methods are implementing the state-of-art solving techniques able to solve the very difficult Groebner bases which allow to represent the Ideal that is determined by an equation system. 

Here are the references :

L. Rolland. Certified Solving of the Forward Kinematics Problem with an exact Method for the general parallel Manipulator. Advanced Robotics, The International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Volume 19, Number 9, October 2005, pp. 995-1025 (31 pages)
  
L. Rolland. Synthesis on the Forward Kinematics Problem algebraic modeling for the planar parallel manipulator. Displacement-based equation systems. Advanced Robotics, Volume 20, Number 9, 2006, pp. 1035-1065 (31 pages)

L. Rolland. Synthesis of the forward kinematics problem algebraic modeling for the general parallel manipulator: displacement-based equations.Advanced Robotics, Volume 21, Number 9, 2007 , pp. 1071-1092 (22 pages)

These can be downloaded in preprint format from my website and this is to make sure that students and underpaid researchers can have access to them, 

http://www.robots-renoir.org

however, you will understand that the final versions will only be available from the journal itself in order to respect copyrights.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/vsp/arb

Luc Rolland