Kinematic Mounts

doi:10.1117/3.2317988.ch3

Kinematic Mounts

Book: Opto-structural Analysis

Author(s): John W. Pepi

Published: 2018

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2317988.ch3

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Abstract

A kinematic mount, which is ideal for optics and optical structure mounting, is a mount in which all six degrees of freedom (three translations and three rotations) of a 3D object are restrained from moving without overconstraint. Such a mount requires six independently constrained degrees of freedom without redundancy. In other words, the mount is statically determinate as revealed by the six equations of equilibrium in a 3D coordinate system.