Xianwen Kong

Xianwen Kong is a Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University, UK. He received his Ph.D. degree from Laval University, Canada, in 2003. He also studied and worked at several Chinese universities including Yanshan University, Southeast University, and Zhengzhou University. Dr. Kong's research interests include mechanisms, robotics, mechatronics, and their industrial and biomedical applications. His monograph entitled “Type synthesis of parallel mechanisms” with Professor Clement Gosselin was published by Springer in 2007. He has also coauthored and authored two US patents and a number of publications in journals and conference proceedings. He serves as an Associate Editor for Mechanisms and Machine Theory, which is an official IFToMM research journal, and Open Mechanical Engineering Journal, and a Reviewer for several international journals including ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Biography Updated on 12 March 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms With Multiple Operation Modes
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 129, no. 6, p. 595, 2007
  2. Kinematic Analysis and Prototyping of a Partially Decoupled 4-DOF 3T1R Parallel Manipulator
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 129, no. 6, p. 611, 2007
  3. Discussion: “Kinematics of the Translational 3-URC Mechanism” [Di Gregorio, R., 2004, ASME J. Mech. Des., 126, pp. 1113–1117]
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 128, no. 4, p. 812, 2006
  4. Type synthesis of 4-DOF SP-equivalent parallel manipulators: A virtual chain approach?
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1306–1319, 2006
  5. Type synthesis of 5-DOF parallel manipulators based on screw theory
    Journal of Robotic Systems, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 535–547, 2005
  6. Type Synthesis of 3-DOF PPR-Equivalent Parallel Manipulators Based on Screw Theory and the Concept of Virtual Chain
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 127, no. 6, p. 1113, 2005
  7. Type Synthesis of 3T1R 4-DOF Parallel Manipulators Based on Screw Theory
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 181–190, 2004
  8. Type Synthesis of 3-DOF Spherical Parallel Manipulators Based on Screw Theory
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 126, no. 1, p. 101, 2004
  9. Type Synthesis of 3-DOF Translational Parallel Manipulators Based on Screw Theory
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 126, no. 1, p. 83, 2004
  10. Type Synthesis of Three-Degree-of-Freedom Spherical Parallel Manipulators
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 237–245, 2004
  11. Generation and Forward Displacement Analysis of RP_R-PR-RP_R Analytic Planar Parallel Manipulators
    Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 124, no. 2, p. 294, 2002
  12. Uncertainty Singularity Analysis of Parallel Manipulators Based on the Instability Analysis of Structures
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 847–856, 2001
  13. Generation and forward displacement analysis of two new classes of analytic 6-SPS parallel manipulators
    Journal of Robotic Systems, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 295–304, 2001
  14. Forward displacement analysis of third-class analytic 3-RPR planar parallel manipulators
    Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 1009–1018, 2001
  15. A modified tree search algorithm for contact BEM-LCP approach
    Computers & Structures, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 707–713, 1996
  16. A data design approach for object-oriented FEM programs
    Computers & Structures, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 503–513, 1996
  17. A boundary element approach for rolling contact of viscoelastic bodies with friction
    Computers & Structures, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 405–413, 1995
  18. An object-oriented design of FEM programs
    Computers & Structures, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 157–166, 1995
  19. A numerical solution of general frictional contact problems by the direct boundary element and mathematical programming approach
    Computers & Structures, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 95–112, 1992