This book has evolved from the passionate desire of the authors in using the modern concepts of multibody dynamics for the design improvement of the machineries used in the rural sectors of India and The World. In this connection, the first author took up his doctoral research in 2003 whose findings have resulted in this book. It is expected that such developments will lead to a new research direction MuDRA, an acronym given by the authors to Multibody Dynamics for Rural Applications. The way Mu- DRA is pronounced it means money in many Indian languages. It is hoped that practicing MuDRA will...

This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems, using kinematic modules and corresponding Decoupled Natural Orthogonal Complements, multiple-degrees-of-freedom-joints, recursive dynamics algorithms, and more.