Welcome
Welcome at the website of the IFToMM Technical Committee for Computational Kinematics, a worldwide leading group of
experts in Computational Kinematics.
Our focus is to enhance the connections among researchers active in computational kinematics research by supporting and promoting conferences, summer schools and workshops to have researchers meet each other and share their expertise.
We are involved in research in a.o.: Theories, methods and algorithms in serial and parallel kinematics, Synthesis of mechanisms and robots, Motion analysis and synthesis, Parallel manipulators, Cable driven manipulators, Deployable and tensegrity structures, Workspace and singularity analysis, Computational geometry in kinematics, Kinematics in biological systems and humanoid robots, Robot motion planning, Molecular kinematics, and Education in computational kinematics.
Feel free to contact any of us for research related questions.
Members
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Prof. Oscar Altuzarra
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
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Prof. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
India
Singularity analysis, parallel mechanisms
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Prof. Lionel Birglen
Polytechnique Montreal
Canada
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Prof. Sébastien Briot
CNRS / LS2N
France
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Prof. Stéphane Caro
CNRS / LS2N
France
Cable-driven parallel robots, Reconfigurable parallel robots
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Prof. Marco Carricato
University of Bologna
Italy
Screw theory, Cable-driven parallel robots, Robot design, Mobile collaborative robotics, Optimization of servomechanisms
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Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
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Prof. Hélène Chanal
SIGMA Clermont
France
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Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian
National University of Singapore
USA
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Prof. Daniel Condurache
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi
Romania
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Prof. Ulf Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany
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Prof. Jian Dai
King's College London
UK
Reconfigurable mechanisms, meta-morphic linkages
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Prof. Raffaele di Gregorio
University of Ferrara
Italy
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Prof. Pietro Fanghella
UNIGE
Italy
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Prof. Clement Gosselin
Université Laval
Canada
parallel manipulators, grasper design, cobots
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Prof. Takashi Harada
Kindai University
Japan
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Prof. Just L. Herder
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Compliant mechanisms, static balancing, medical instrumentation
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Prof. Manfred Husty
University of Innsbruck
Austria
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Prof. Andres Kecskemethy
University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Roller coaster dynamics
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Prof. Gökhan Kiper
İzmir Institute of Technology
Turkey
Deployable structures, linkages, function generation, Parallel Manipulator Kinematics
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Prof. Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania
USA
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Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo
University of Wollongong
Australia
Static balancing
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Prof. Pierre Larochelle
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
USA
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Prof. Jadran Lenarcic
Jozef Stefan Institute
Slovenia
Art (paintings)
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Prof. Haitao Liu
Tianjin University
China-Beijing
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Prof. Andreas Müller
Johannes Kepler Universität
Austria
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Prof. Joao Carlos Mendes Carvalho
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Brazil
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Prof. Jean-Pierre Merlet
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
France
Cable driven robots, assistive robots, interval analysis, parallel manipulators
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Prof. Georg Nawratil
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
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Prof. Leila Notash
Queen's University
Canada
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Prof. Erika Ottaviano
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Italy
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Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli
Unversità degli Studi di Bologna
Italy
Biomechanics
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Prof. Nina Patarinsky Robson
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)
USA
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Prof. Martin Pfurner
University of Innsbruck
Austria
Algebraic methods, Forward kinematics, Inverse kinematics, Singularity analysis
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Prof. Charles Pinto
University of the Basque Country
Spain
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Prof. Doina Pisla
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Surgical robotics
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Prof. Andreas Pott
Universität Stuttgart
Germany
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Prof. Rany Rizk
Lebanese University
Lebanon
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Prof. Nicolás Rojas
Imperial College London
UK
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Prof. Lotfi Romdhane
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir
Tunisia
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Prof. Jon Selig
Formerly - London South Bank University
UK
Lie algebra
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Prof. Moshe Shoham
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
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Prof. Tao Sun
Tianjin University
China-Beijing
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Prof. Yukio Takeda
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
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Prof. Tanio Tanev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
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Prof. Federico Thomas
Institut de Robotica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)
Spain
Singularities
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Prof. Mónica Urízar
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
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Prof. Volkert van der Wijk
TU Delft
The Netherlands
Dynamic & Static balancing, Deployable mechanisms, Synthesis, Kinetic Art
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Prof. Delun Wang
Dalian University of Technology
China-Beijing
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Prof. Philippe Wenger
Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes
France