Computational Kinematics '95: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Kinematics, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, September 4-6, 1995

The aim of this book is to provide an account of the state of the art in Computational Kinematics. We understand here under this term that branch of kinematics research involving intensive computations not only of the nu­ merical type, but also of symbolic as well as geometric nature. Research in kinematics over the last decade has been remarkably ori­ ented towards the computational aspects of kinematics problems. In fact, this work has been prompted by the need to answer fundamental quest...