OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Mechanism and Machine Theory is 35. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Design of mechanical metamaterial for energy absorption using a beam with a variable cross-section	96
Dynamic stability and efficiency of centrifugal double pendulum vibration absorbers	91
Configuration design of planetary gear mechanisms of automatic transmissions based on the tree graph and structure constraints	91
Optimal design and reliability analysis of a compliant stroke amplification mechanism	78
Kinematic stability of a 2-DOF deployable translational parallel manipulator	74
Development of a novel leg-wheel module with fast transformation and leaping capability	69
A Mecanum wheel model based on orthotropic friction with experimental validation	68
Optimal design of loading device based on a redundantly actuated parallel manipulator	68
Analytical modeling and experimental validation of rotationally actuated pinned–pinned and fixed–pinned buckled beam bistable mechanisms	67
Design and modelling of an anti-buckling compliant universal joint with a compact configuration	67
Energy shaping control with integral action for soft continuum manipulators	60
A novel compact tilt stage with additive manufacturable spatial flexure mechanism driven by asymmetric stiffness	55
Closed-loop topology modification of gear tooth flanks considering both dressing and honing processes for internal-meshing gear honing	54
Type synthesis of a family of novel parallel leg mechanisms driven by a 3-DOF drive system	54
Influence of profile modification on the transmission error of spur gears under surface wear	50
Dynamic modeling and analysis of Ravigneaux planetary gear set with unloaded floating ring gear	47
Vibration characteristics of a high-speed flexible angular contact ball bearing with the manufacturing error	47
Design and testing of high-accuracy curved cross-axis flexural pivots with cable-driven actuation	46
A new solution for sharpening helical flute hobs	46
A novel compliance modeling method for compliant parallel mechanisms and its application	45
Spherical gear coupling design space analysis for high misalignment applications	40
Workspace analysis and optimal design of dual cable-suspended robots for construction	39
Softening nonlinear-stiffness elastic mechanism with continuous adjustability for human–robot interaction force control	39
Ball bearing friction assessment through power minimization	39
Complex dynamics of the passive biped robot with flat feet: Gait bifurcation, intermittency and crisis	38

Adaptive robust dual-loop control scheme of ship-mounted Stewart platforms for wave compensation	38
Screw rolling between moving and fixed axodes traced by lower-mobility parallel mechanism	38
An inverse kinematics solution with trajectory scaling for redundant manipulators	38
A novel framework for high-speed cam curve synthesis: piecewise high-order interpolation, pointwise scaling and piecewise modulation	38
Profile and contact force estimation of cable-driven continuum robots in presence of obstacles	37
Design and analysis of a novel large-span two-fold deployable mechanism	37
Improving gearshift controllers for electric vehicles with reinforcement learning	37
Research on the line-arc-line constant-torque flexure hinge (LAL-CTFH) based on improved pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM)	36
Design, modeling, and control of a large range 3-DOF micropositioning stage	36
A novel generating machining process for screw-rotors using an internal-cylindrical skiving cutter on a new CNC skiving machine	36
A novel reconfigurable spherical joint based on linear independence of screws and its resultant metamorphic mechanisms	35
Energy optimal control of mobile manipulators subject to compensation of external disturbance forces	35
Configuration switch and path selection between Schönflies motion and non-Schönflies motion based on quotient manifold of novel reconfigurable parallel mechanisms	35