Juan Antonio Carretero

Research interests

Robot kinematics

• Parallel manipulators
• Motion simulators
• Reduced degree-of-freedom parallel manipulators
• Applications
• Robot simulation
• Path planning
• Contact tasks

Computer simulation of mechanical systems

• Distance determination
  • Contact dynamics
  • Robot path planning
  • Tool path planning

Optimization in design

• Mechanisms design and analysis

Books / Book chapters

J.K. Pickard, J.A. Carretero, and J.-P. Merlet. Advances in Robot Kinematics, chapter Analysis methods for the 3-RRR with uncertainties in the design parameters, page 8. Springer, 2016.

M.A. Díaz Rodríguez, J.A. Carretero, and R. Bautista Quintero. New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science: From Fundamentals to Industrial Applications, volume 24 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, chapter Computing the Dynamic Equations of a 3-PRS Parallel Manipulator, pages 325–333. Springer, Guimarães, Portugal, 2015.

M.J.D. Hayes, R.Boudreau, J.A. Carretero, and R.P. Podhorodeski. Technology Developments: the Role of Mechanism and Machine Science and IFToMM, chapter Contributions to the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science by the IFToMM Canadian Community (CCToMM), pages 257–264. Springer, June 9, 2010.

M. Ruggiu and J. A. Carretero. Actuation strategy based on the acceleration model for the 3-PRPR redundant planar parallel manipulator. In J. Lenarˇcicˇ and M. M. Staniši´c, editors, Advances in Robot Kinematics: Motion in Man and Machine, pages 91–98, Piran-Portorož, Slovenia, June 16 2010. IFToMM.

Selected publications

B. Nouri and J. A. Carretero. Modeling and real-time motion planning of a class of kinematically redundant parallel mechanisms with reconfigurable platform. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 14(2), April 2023. doi: 10.1115/1. 4054614.

J. K. Pickard, J. A. Carretero, and Merlet J.-P. Appropriate synthesis of the four-bar linkage. Mechanism and Machine Theory, November 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2020.103965.

M. Ceccarelli, T. Huang, T. Zielinska, J. A. Carretero, and T. Uhl. Celebrations for the 50-year anniversary of IFToMM. Machines, 7(3):1–7, 2019. doi: 10.3390/machines 7030053.

J. K. Pickard, J. A. Carretero, and Merlet J.-P. Appropriate analysis of the four-bar linkage. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 139:237–250, September 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2019.04.013.

J. K. Pickard, J. A. Carretero, and Merlet J.-P. Towards the appropriate synthesis of the four-bar linkage. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers, 42:1–9, 2018. doi: 10.1139/tcsme-2017-0001.

J. K. Pickard, J. A. Carretero, and V. C. Bhavsar. On the convergence and origin bias of the teaching-learning-based-optimization algorithm. Applied Soft Computing, 46:115–127, September 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2016.04.029.

G. D. Watt, A. R. Roy, J. Currie, C. Gillis, J. Giesbrecht, G. Heard, N. Birsan, M. Seto, J. A. Carretero, R. Dubay, and T. Jeans. A concept for docking a UUV with a slowly moving submarine under waves. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 41(2):471–498, April 2016. doi: 10.1109/JOE.2015.2424731.

J. K. Pickard and J. A. Carretero. An interval analysis method for wrench workspace determination of parallel manipulator architectures. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 40(2):139–154, 2016.

M. Díaz Rodríguez, J. A. Carretero, and R. Bautista Quintero. Solving the dynamic equations of a 3-PRS parallel manipulator for efficient model-based designs. Mechanical Sciences, 7(1):9–17, 2016. doi: 10.5194/ms-7-9-2016.

G. Sun, S. Yao, and J. A. Carretero. An experimental approach to understanding design problem structuring strategies. Journal of Design Research, 14(1):94–117, 2016. doi: 10.1504/JDR.2016.074778.