KINEMATICS OF THE PLANAR QUADRILATERAL MECHANISM

This paper presents an original method to determine the kinematic parameters at the linkedquadrilateral mechanism. It is starting with a trigonometric method, which has the advantage to determinevery quickly the position angles. The velocities can be determined faster using a geometric method.This method is developed and for the accelerations determinations. The (proposed) geometric method,determines first the kinematic parameters of the internal couple (B) and then the rotation angles with theirderivatives. Secondary, the paper presents the determination of the efficiency of this mechanism. Determinesand dynamic coefficient, D. With this one proposes two yields; the mechanical efficiency and the dynamicefficiency.