Rigid Body Dynamics of Mechanisms

This monograph presents an introduction into basic mechanical aspects of mechatronic systems for students, researchers and engineers from industrial practice. An overview over the theoretical background of rigid body mechanics is given as well as a systematic approach for deriving and solving model equations of general rigid body mechanisms in the form of differential-algebraic equations (DAE). The objective of this book is to prepare the reader for being capable of efficiently handling and applying general purpose rigid body programs to complex mechanisms. The reader will be able to set up symbolic mathematical models of planar and spatial mechanisms in DAE-form for computer simulations, often required in dynamic analysis and in control design.

From the reviews: "The present book is a very important and useful introduction of mechanical aspects of mechatronic systems. This book is very useful for undergraduate students of mechanical engineering, control engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics and physics. This book is also very useful for practicing engineers since with this book they have the opportunity of a systematic choice of notation, of an algebraic formulation of all the expressions, of a possibility of direct implementation in a computer and finally of an application … ." (T. E. Simos, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 3 (1), 2003) "This monograph presents an introduction into basic mechanical aspects of mechatronic systems for students, researchers and engineers from industrial practice. An overview over the theoretical background of rigid body mechanics is given as well as a systematic approach for deriving model equations of general rigid body mechanisms in the form of differential-algebraic equations (DAE). Objective of this book is to prepare the reader for being capable of efficiently handling and applying general purpose rigid body programs to complex mechanics … ." (European Journal of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 47 (2), 2002)