• 1 Introduction: lockable and non-holonomic joints.- 1.1 Motivation.- 1.2 Precursors.- 1.3 Organization of this book.- References.- 2 Parallel robots with lockable revolute joints.- 2.1 Kinematics of the 4RbRPS parallel robot.- 2.2 Maneuvers.- 2.3 Motion planning.- 2.4 Hardware implementation.- 2.5 Software implementation.- References.- 3 Spherical non-holonomic joints.- 3.1 Under-actuated parallel robots with spherical non-holonomic joints.- 3.2 Implementation of spherical non-holonomic joints.- References.- 4 Kinematics of the 3SnPU spatial robot.- 4.1 The 3SnPU robot.- 4.2 Instantaneous kinematics.- 4.3 Statics analysis.- 4.4 Singularities.- 4.5 Controllability.- 4.6 Example.- References.- 5 Motion planning for the 3SnPU robot.- 5.1 Motion planning.- 5.2 Using truncated series.- 5.3 Example.- References.- 6 Kinematics of the Sn-2UPS spherical robot.- 6.1 Kinematic model.- 6.2 Deriving a bilinear model.- 6.3 Singularities.- 6.4 A, B, and rotations in R4.- 6.5 Workspace computation.- 7 Motion planning for the Sn-2UPS robot.- 7.1 Kinematic model.- 7.2 Three-move motion planner.- 7.3 Two-move motion planner.- 7.4 Single-move motion planner.- 7.5 Example.- 7.6 Implementation.- References.- 8 Conclusions.

“This book should be of interest to practicing and research engineers as well as Ph.D. students from the field of mechanical engineering and, in particular, from robotics.” (Clementina Mladenova, zbMATH 1447.70001, 2020)