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