Creative synthesis of kinematic mechanisms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03308v2
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:07:47 GMT
• Title: Creative synthesis of kinematic mechanisms
• Abstract summary: We develop a planar linkages dataset using RGB image representations.<n>A shared-latent variational autoencoder is employed to explore the potential of image generative models.<n>Preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of image-based representations for generative mechanical design.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we formulate the problem of kinematic synthesis for planar linkages as a cross-domain image generation task. We develop a planar linkages dataset using RGB image representations, covering a range of mechanisms: from simple types such as crank-rocker and crank-slider to more complex eight-bar linkages like Jansen's mechanism. A shared-latent variational autoencoder (VAE) is employed to explore the potential of image generative models for synthesizing unseen motion curves and simulating novel kinematics. By encoding the drawing speed of trajectory points as color gradients, the same architecture also supports kinematic synthesis conditioned on both trajectory shape and velocity profiles. We validate our method on three datasets of increasing complexity: a standard four-bar linkage set, a mixed set of four-bar and crank-slider mechanisms, and a complex set including multi-loop mechanisms. Preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of image-based representations for generative mechanical design, showing that mechanisms with revolute and prismatic joints, and potentially cams and gears, can be represented and synthesized within a unified image generation framework.

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