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title: "Qualitative Kinematics in Mechanisms"
authors:
  - "Boi Faltings"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/86"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0086.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "436-441"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
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# Qualitative Kinematics in Mechanisms

Boi Faltings

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 436-441.

## Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of reasoning about the kinematic interactions between parts of a mechanism . We introduce the concept of Place Vocabularies as a useful symbolic description of the possible interactions. We examine the requirements for the representation and introduce a definition of place vocabularies that satisfies them. We show how this representation can be computed from metric data and used as a basis for qualitative envisionments of mechanism behavior. and describe implemented algorithms to solve this problem