One of the main aims of this paper is to draw the reader's attention to some problems and results from Structural Geometry which can be easily reformulated in terms familiar to the researches in Computational Kinematics, thus establishing connecting threads between both disciplines. In particular, we herein study the problem of finding the spatial interpretation of polyhedral projections using the correspondence of this problem with that of analysing the instantaneous kinematics of panel-and-hinge frameworks. A robust algorithm to solve this problem is presented, based on the computation of the singular value decomposition of the rigidity matrix associated with such frameworks.

International Workshop on Computational Kinematics (CK), 2001, Seúl (Corea del Sur)

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