Advanced undergraduates and beginner graduate students who are new to kinematics and rotational representations. Allen S. Hall, Jr., Kinematics and Linkage Design Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1961. Published by Waveland, 1986. Richard S. Hartenberg and Jacques Denavit, Kinematic Synthesis of Linkages, McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, 1964. J.M. McCarthy, Notes on Theoretical Kinematics MIT Press, Dec. 1989.
Homeworks are due at the beginning of class on the specified due dates.
Late assignments will not be accepted without prior approval of the instructor. Collaboration on the homework is encouraged, but each student must submit independent work. Some homework requires Matlab . The final will be a take home examination in which you are allocated four hours to take the test. However, it is ok to take breaks to ask me questions, eat something, or just rest.