Welcome to the home page of the Multibody Systems Research Group in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.
We study fundamental mathematical properties and develop efficient algorithms for multibody systems of various types, including kinematic chains and manipulation systems in robotics, braids and knots in topology, proteins in biochemistry, and many more!
Some of the activities reported on this page are supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0713335.
[Example] The following animation shows three paths of a 5-bar planar loop with link lengths (2,3,4,2,3), as both linkage motions and point movements in DSpace (as parametrized by triangles anchored at joint P(0)). All three paths are between a same pair of deformations with opposite orientation values of (+,+,+) and (-,-,-) . For more information, please refer to our Research pages and publications.
The animation was written by Jon Moran '10.
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