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Publications

• A. Shabani, J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. A branch-and-prune method to solve closure equations in dual quaternions. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 164: 104424, 2021.

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• T. Marchi, G. Mottola, J.M. Porta, F. Thomas and M. Carricato. Position and singularity analysis of a class of planar parallel manipulators with a reconfigurable end-effector. Machines, 9(1): 7, 2021.

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• F. Thomas and J.M. Porta. Clifford’s identity and generalized Cayley-Menger determinants, 17th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2020, Vol 15 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 285-292, Springer.

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• T. Marchi, G. Mottola, J.M. Porta, F. Thomas and M. Carricato. Position analysis of a class of n-RRR planar parallel robots, 3rd International Conference of the IFToMM Italy, 2020, Online, in Advances in Italian Mechanism Science, Vol 91 of Mechanisms and Machine Science Series, pp. 353-361, Springer.

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• S. Sarabandi, A. Shabani, J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. On closed-form formulas for the 3-D nearest rotation matrix problem. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 36(4): 1333-1339, 2020.

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• A. Shabani, S. Sarabandi, J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. A fast branch-and-prune algorithm for the position analysis of spherical mechanisms, 15th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2019, Krakow, Poland, in Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science, Vol 73 of Mechanism and Machine Science, pp. 549-558, Springer.

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• S. Sarabandi, A. Perez and F. Thomas. On Cayley's factorization with an application to the orthonormalization of noisy rotation matrices. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 29: 49, 2019.

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• P. Grosch and F. Thomas. Parallel Robots With Unconventional Joints. Kinematics and Motion Planning. Volume of Parallel Robots: Theory and Applications. Springer, 2019.

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• S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. A survey on the computation of quaternions from rotation matrices. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 11(2): 021006, 2019.

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• J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. Yet another approach to the Gough-Stewart platform forward kinematics, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 974-980.

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