Automatic Structural Synthesis and Creative Design of Mechanisms

Prof. Dr. Huafeng Ding, born in 1977, received his first Ph.D. from Yanshan University, China, in 2007, and received his second Ph.D. from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in 2015. He worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany from 2010 to 2012 and won the Natural Science fund for Outstanding Youth Scholars in 2014. He is Full Professor and Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Information, China University of Geosciences, and is Associate Editor of journal of Mechanism and Machine Theory. Prof. Ding's research interest is the intelligent design of mechanisms. He published over 100 research papers and 1 book published by Springer.Prof. Dr. Wenjian Yang, born in 1990, received his Ph.D. from China University of Geosciences in June 2019. He worked as Postdoctor in University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, from August 2019 to August 2021, and worked as Professor in China University of Geosciences from October 2021. Prof. Yang'sresearch interest is the structural synthesis and creative design of mechanisms. He published 18 research papers, among which 13 papers were published in the top journal of mechanisms MMT and ASME JMD.Prof. Dr. Andrés Kecskeméthy, born in 1957, received his Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg in 1993. He worked as Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen from 2002. He served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal Mechanism and Machine Theory and served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of University Duisburg-Essen. He was elected as President of IFToMM in 2020. Prof. Kecskeméthy’s research interest is the kinematics and dynamics analysis of mechanisms, and he published over 200 journal and proceedings papers and 7 books.

• 1 Introduction.- Part 1 Topological Structure Analysis.- 2 Basic Concepts of Graphs of Kinematic Chains.- 3 Unified Graph Model of Planar Kinematic chains.- 4 Loop Algebra of Kinematic Chains.- 5 Unified Isomorphism Detection for Planar Kinematic Chains.- 6 Unified Rigid Sub-chain Detection for Planar Kinematic Chains.- Part 2 Topological Structure Synthesis.- 7 Structural Synthesis of Contracted Graphs of Kinematic Chains.- 8 Structural Synthesis of Simple Joint Kinematic Chains.- 9 Automatic Sketching of Planar Kinematic Chains.- 10 Automatic Synthesis of Inversions of Kinematic Chains.- 11 Structural Synthesis of Fractionated Kinematic Chains.- 12 Automatic Synthesis of Kinematic Chains with Prismatic Pairs.- 13 Automatic Synthesis of Planar Multiple Joint Kinematic Chains.- 14 Automatic Synthesis of Planetary Gear Trains.- Part 3 Conceptual Creative Design of Mechanisms.- 15 Automatic Computation of Connectivity in Kinematic Chains.- 16 Conceptual Creative Design of Mechanisms.- Appendix A Contracted graphs with six independent loops.