mobility-audit
Mobility, counted and measured
Grübler's criterion counts links and joints and knows nothing about the dimensions; the rank of the constraint Jacobian measures the dimensions and knows nothing about the topology. They agree for four of these five. The parallelogram with a redundant third bar is the exception: the formula declares it a structure with zero degrees of freedom, and it moves. The formula is the one that is wrong, because it cannot see that the third bar's constraint equations are already implied by the other two.
Where it is used
- The chain that does not close One path to the tool
- What decides whether it moves What can move
- A roller is not a slider Machines you have met
- Counting and measuring mobility What can move
- Peaucellier and the exact answer The paths points trace
- The mechanism Grübler says cannot move What can move
- The slider-crank Linkages
- What each joint takes away What can move
- Six bars, and what the extra dyad buys Linkages
- The formula is repaired by the thing it replaced What can move
- The count was right and the name was wrong What can move
- One freedom and four hundred links What can move
- Pin the tool and it is a loop One path to the tool
- One freedom, and a motion that never repeats What can move
- A parallelogram a micron wrong What can move
- Nine bars that ought to be rigid What can move
- The right angle as a tolerance What can move
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