With the rapidly growing demands in robotic applications, there is an importance of developing customized manipulators for serving various operations in different workspaces. Conventional manipulators used today in various industries are restricted to predefined working environments and, as the environment changes to a more cluttered one, it is difficult for those manipulators to operate in the new environment. This book involves the development of a general procedure to design customized manipulators according to the defined workspace. In this book, the worst configuration corresponding to...