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Mechanism synthesis: a comparison of adaptive and traditional approaches

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  • Jonathan A. Feldman
  • Ben J. Hicks
  • Glen Mullineux

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Mechanism synthesis is a critical step in the design of mechanisms. It can be formulated as an optimisation problem and ways to solve this have been the subject of much recent research. Approaches based on adaptive computing have been proposed. A comparison of these with the traditional approaches is made by considering case study examples, based on four bar mechanisms, and comparing the results obtained by traditional means with those recently published for the adaptive approaches. The traditional approaches perform at least as well as the others and involve a simpler and more intuitive problem formulation.

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  • Jonathan A. Feldman & Ben J. Hicks & Glen Mullineux, 2014. "Mechanism synthesis: a comparison of adaptive and traditional approaches," International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(2/3), pages 216-241.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijitma:v:13:y:2014:i:2/3:p:216-241
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