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References

6. References

Note: There is a strong overlap between issues involving linkages and rigidity questions. Some of the references below reflect this strong tie. There are two traditions in dealing with linkages: one concerned with combinatorial methods and raising issues of complexity in a theoretical framework; the second growing out of the connection between linkages and robot arms. I have tried to include references in both these traditions. Many of the recent papers have appeared as extended abstracts in conference proceedings but are not yet available in fully published final form.

Alt, H. and C. Yap, Algorithmic aspects of motion planning: a tutorial, Part 1, Algorithms Review, 1 (1990) 43-60.

Alt, H. and C. Yap, Algorithmic aspects of motion planning: a tutorial, Part 2, Algorithms Review, 1 (1990) 61-78.

Biedl, T. and E. Demaine, M. Demaine, S. Lazard. A. Lubiw, J. O'Rourke, M Overmars, S. Robbins, I. Streinu, G. Toussaint, S. Whitesides, Locked and unlocked polygonal chains in 3d. Proc. 10th. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1999, p. 866-867.

Borcea, C. and Il Streinu, On the number of embeddings of mini ally rigid graphs, preprint.

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Cayley, A. and S. Roberts, On three-bar motion, Proc. London Math. Soc., 7 (1876) 14.

Cayley, A. and S. Roberts, On three-bar motion, Proc. London Math. Soc. 7 (1876) 136.

Connelly, R. and E. Demaine, G. Rote, Straightening polygonal arcs and convexifying polygonal cycles, Discrete and Computational Geometry, to appear.

Connelly, R. and E. Demaine, G. Rote, Infinitesimally locked self-touching linkages with applications to locked trees, preprint.

Gibson, C.G., Marsh,D. and Xiang,Y. An Algorithm to Generate the Transition Curve of the Planar Four-bar Mechanism. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 31
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Hopcroft, J. and D. Joseph, S. Whitesides, Movement problems for 2-dimensional linkages, SIAM J. Computing 13 (1984) 610-629.

Hopcroft, J. and D. Joseph, S. Whitesides, On the movement of robot arms in 2-dimensional bounded region, SIAM J. Computing 14 (1985) 315-333.

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Kapovich, M. and J. Millson, Universality theorems for configuration spaces of planar linkages, preprint, 1998.

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Lenhart, W. and S. Whitesides, Reconfiguring closed polygonal chains in Euclidean d-space, Disc. Comput. Geo. 13 (1995) 123-140.

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Whitesides, S., Algorithmic issues in the geometry of planar linkage movement, The Australian Computer J., Special Issue on Algorithms, May, 1992, p. 42-50.

Whitesides, S. and N. Pei, On the reconfiguration of chains, in Proceedings of COCOON, 96, Hong Kong, June, 1996, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1090, J. Y. Cai and C. K. Kuen, eds., Springer-Verlag.