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

Prof. Oscar Altuzarra
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
Mechanism kinematics and dynamics, Parallel manipulators, Flexible/Compliant manipulators

Prof. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
India
Singularity analysis, parallel mechanisms

Prof. Lionel Birglen
Polytechnique Montreal
Canada

Prof. Sébastien Briot
CNRS / LS2N
France
Dynamics, Singularity analysis, Robot design, Continuum robots

Prof. Stéphane Caro
CNRS / LS2N
France
Cable-driven parallel robots, Reconfigurable parallel robots

Prof. Marco Carricato
University of Bologna
Italy
Screw theory, Cable-driven parallel robots, Robot design, Mobile collaborative robotics, Optimization of servomechanisms

Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
History of Machines and Mechanisms

Prof. Hélène Chanal
Clermont Auvergne INP
France
Modelling of parallel and serial robot architectures, Identification

Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian
University of Delaware
USA

Prof. Daniel Condurache
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi
Romania

Prof. Ulf Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany

Prof. Jian Dai
King's College London
UK
Reconfigurable mechanisms, meta-morphic linkages

Prof. Raffaele di Gregorio
University of Ferrara
Italy

Prof. Pietro Fanghella
University of Genoa
Italy

Prof. Clement Gosselin
Université Laval
Canada
parallel manipulators, grasper design, cobots

Prof. Takashi Harada
Kindai University
Japan

Prof. Just L. Herder
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Compliant mechanisms, static balancing, medical instrumentation

Prof. Kuan-Lun Hsu
National Taiwan University
China-Taipei
Kinematics of machinery, Mechanism and machine design

Prof. Manfred Husty
University of Innsbruck
Austria
Kinematics

Prof. Andres Kecskemethy
University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Roller coaster dynamics

Prof. Gökhan Kiper
İzmir Institute of Technology
Turkey
Deployable structures, linkages, function generation, Parallel Manipulator Kinematics

Prof. Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania
USA

Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo
University of Wollongong
Australia
Static balancing design, Reconfigurable mechanisms, Surgical and Assistive robots

Prof. Pierre Larochelle
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
USA

Prof. Jadran Lenarcic
Jozef Stefan Institute
Slovenia
Art (paintings)

Prof. Haitao Liu
Tianjin University
China-Beijing

Prof. Andreas Müller
Johannes Kepler Universität
Austria

Prof. Jean-Pierre Merlet
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
France
Cable driven robots, assistive robots, interval analysis, parallel manipulators

Prof. Georg Nawratil
Vienna University of Technology
Austria

Prof. Leila Notash
Queen's University
Canada

Prof. Erika Ottaviano
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Italy
Biomedical Robotics

Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli
Unversità degli Studi di Bologna
Italy
Biomechanics

Prof. Nina Patarinsky Robson
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)
USA

Prof. Martin Pfurner
University of Innsbruck
Austria
Algebraic methods, Forward kinematics, Inverse kinematics, Singularity analysis

Prof. Charles Pinto
University of the Basque Country
Spain

Prof. Doina Pisla
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Surgical robotics

Prof. Andreas Pott
Universität Stuttgart
Germany

Prof. Rany Rizk
Lebanese University
Lebanon

Prof. Nicolás Rojas
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

Prof. Lotfi Romdhane
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir
Tunisia

Prof. Matteo Russo
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
Continuum robots, Mechanism design, Robot kinematics, Parallel manipulators

Prof. Nicola Sancisi
University of Bologna
Italy
Biomechanics: joint modelling, experimental motion analysis, design of medical devices

Prof. Jon Selig
Formerly - London South Bank University
United Kingdom
Lie algebra

Prof. Moshe Shoham
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Israel

Prof. Tao Sun
Tianjin University
China-Beijing

Prof. Yukio Takeda
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan

Prof. Tanio Tanev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria

Prof. Federico Thomas
Institut de Robotica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)
Spain
Singularities

Prof. Mónica Urízar
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
Singularity analysis, Optimal design of parallel manipulators, Reconfigurable robots

Prof. Calin Vaida
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Kinematics and dynamics of parallel robots, Medical robots, Intelligent systems

Prof. Volkert van der Wijk
TU Delft
The Netherlands
Dynamic & Static balancing, Deployable mechanisms, Synthesis, Kinetic Art

Prof. Delun Wang
Dalian University of Technology
China-Beijing

Prof. Philippe Wenger
Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes
France