Freedom in Machinery: Volume 1, Introducing Screw Theory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0521236967 | 192 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Does a machine run well by virtue of its accuracies, or its freedoms? This work presents an exciting, diagrammatic display of the hidden geometry of freedom and constraint. It bolsters the imaginative design of robots, but applies across all fields of machinery. The figures and their captions comprise alone a self-standing story, and this connects effectively with the rigorously argued text. The seamless combination of the two volumes (1984, 1990) renders the internal cross-referencing (forward and backward within the volumes) easier to look up.