Kinematic Diagrams & Degrees of Freedom
Ken Youssefi Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept., SJSU 1 Kinematic (stick or skeleton) Diagrams A striped-down (simplified) drawing showing the essentials.
Definitions – Link – Kinematic pair – Kinematic chain – Mechanism – Machine – Degree of Freedom Mobility – Kutzbach criterion (Gruebler’s equation)
