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This paper deals with the old and classical problem of determining necessary conditions for the overconstrained mobility of some mechanical device. In particular, we show that the mobility of pentapods/hexapods implies either a collinearity condition on the anchor points, or a geometric condition on the normal projections of base and platform points. The method is based on a specific compactification of the group of direct isometries of \({\mathbb{R}^{3}}\).
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Gallet, M., Nawratil, G. & Schicho, J. Bond theory for pentapods and hexapods. J. Geom. 106, 211–228 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-014-0243-1
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