For some practical applications, mechanisms are sophisticatedly designed with changeable topologies in order to perform the elaborate tasks. Such mechanisms are called the mechanisms with variable topologies (MVTs). In the past decades, the single-topology mechanisms had been explored exhaustively; however, there are no obvious works which exclusively contribute to the structural characteristics of MVTs. This book is, therefore, devoted to the topology and configuration analysis of mechanisms with variable topologies. First, the current research background of MVTs is reviewed. Then, the...