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Degrees of freedom (mechanics)

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296: 1287:. An object with fewer controllable DOFs than total DOFs is said to be non-holonomic, and an object with more controllable DOFs than total DOFs (such as the human arm) is said to be redundant. Although keep in mind that it is not redundant in the human arm because the two DOFs; wrist and shoulder, that represent the same movement; roll, supply each other since they can't do a full 360. The degree of freedom are like different movements that can be made. 312: 304: 1236: 43: 285:
If two particles in space are constrained to maintain a constant distance from each other, such as in the case of a diatomic molecule, then the six coordinates must satisfy a single constraint equation defined by the distance formula. This reduces the degree of freedom of the system to five, because
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In mobile robotics, a car-like robot can reach any position and orientation in 2-D space, so it needs 3 DOFs to describe its pose, but at any point, you can move it only by a forward motion and a steering angle. So it has two control DOFs and three representational DOFs; i.e. it is non-holonomic. A
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A non-rigid or deformable body may be thought of as a collection of many minute particles (infinite number of DOFs), this is often approximated by a finite DOF system. When motion involving large displacements is the main objective of study (e.g. for analyzing the motion of satellites), a deformable
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The position of a single railcar (engine) moving along a track has one degree of freedom because the position of the car is defined by the distance along the track. A train of rigid cars connected by hinges to an engine still has only one degree of freedom because the positions of the cars behind
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and other space structures. A human arm is considered to have seven DOFs. A shoulder gives pitch, yaw, and roll, an elbow allows for pitch, and a wrist allows for pitch, yaw and roll. Only 3 of those movements would be necessary to move the hand to any point in space, but people would lack the
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degrees of freedom measured relative to a fixed frame. In order to count the degrees of freedom of this system, include the fixed body in the count of bodies, so that mobility is independent of the choice of the body that forms the fixed frame. Then the degree-of-freedom of the unconstrained
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An example of a simple closed chain is the RSSR spatial four-bar linkage. The sum of the freedom of these joints is eight, so the mobility of the linkage is two, where one of the degrees of freedom is the rotation of the coupler around the line joining the two S joints.
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An automobile with highly stiff suspension can be considered to be a rigid body traveling on a plane (a flat, two-dimensional space). This body has three independent degrees of freedom consisting of two components of translation and one angle of rotation. Skidding or
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Joints that connect bodies in this system remove degrees of freedom and reduce mobility. Specifically, hinges and sliders each impose five constraints and therefore remove five degrees of freedom. It is convenient to define the number of constraints
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An example of a simple open chain is a serial robot manipulator. These robotic systems are constructed from a series of links connected by six one degree-of-freedom revolute or prismatic joints, so the system has six degrees of freedom.
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practice and communication link practice, with beam steering being more prevalent for radar applications and null steering being more prevalent for interference suppression in communication links.
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fixed-wing aircraft, with 3–4 control DOFs (forward motion, roll, pitch, and to a limited extent, yaw) in a 3-D space, is also non-holonomic, as it cannot move directly up/down or left/right.
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is used to describe the number of parameters needed to specify the spatial pose of a linkage. It is also defined in context of the configuration space, task space and workspace of a robot.
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For example, the trajectory of an airplane in flight has three degrees of freedom and its attitude along the trajectory has three degrees of freedom, for a total of six degrees of freedom.
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An important derivative is the roll rate (or roll velocity), which is the angular speed at which an aircraft can change its roll attitude, and is typically expressed in degrees per second.
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A system with several bodies would have a combined DOF that is the sum of the DOFs of the bodies, less the internal constraints they may have on relative motion. A
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The mobility formula counts the number of parameters that define the configuration of a set of rigid bodies that are constrained by joints connecting these bodies.
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The degree of freedom of a system can be viewed as the minimum number of coordinates required to specify a configuration. Applying this definition, we have:
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Physical constraints may limit the number of degrees of freedom of a single rigid body.  For example, a block sliding around on a flat table has 3 DOF
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ability to grasp things from different angles or directions. A robot (or object) that has mechanisms to control all 6 physical DOF is said to be
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A summary of formulas and methods for computing the degrees-of-freedom in mechanical systems has been given by Pennestri, Cavacece, and Vita.
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There are two important special cases: (i) a simple open chain, and (ii) a simple closed chain. A single open chain consists of
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containing a number of connected rigid bodies may have more than the degrees of freedom for a single rigid body. Here the term
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Another important derivative is the yawing moment, the angular momentum of a yaw rotation, which is important for
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so that the movement of all of the bodies are constrained to lie on parallel planes, to form what is known as a
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One important derivative is the yaw rate (or yaw velocity), the angular speed of yaw rotation, measured with a
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For example, the motion of a ship at sea has the six degrees of freedom of a rigid body, and is described as:
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mechanical design method manages the degrees of freedom to neither underconstrain nor overconstrain a device.
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the distance formula can be used to solve for the remaining coordinate once the other five are specified.
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For a single particle in a plane two coordinates define its location so it has two degrees of freedom;
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body may be approximated as a rigid body (or even a particle) in order to simplify the analysis.
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that define its configuration or state. It is important in the analysis of systems of bodies in
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A single particle in space requires three coordinates so it has three degrees of freedom;
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Number of independent parameters needed to define the state of a mechanical system
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is a good example of an automobile's three independent degrees of freedom.
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because the fixed body has zero degrees of freedom relative to itself.
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joints, with one end connected to a ground link. Thus, in this case
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is often used to describe the number of directions in which a
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Two particles in space have a combined six degrees of freedom;
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of a rigid body in space is defined by three components of
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Principles and techniques for designing precision machines
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An example of a planar simple closed chain is the planar
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The result is that the mobility of a system formed from
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the engine are constrained by the shape of the track.
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This article is about mechanics. For other fields, see
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J. J. Uicker, G. R. Pennock, and J. E. Shigley, 2003,
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that a joint imposes in terms of the joint's freedom
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