@Article{Wang:2014:ACA, author = "Menghan Wang and Meera Sitharam", title = "Algorithm 951: {Cayley} Analysis of Mechanism Configuration Spaces using {CayMos}: Software Functionalities and Architecture", journal = "{ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software", volume = "41", number = "4", accepted = "03 October 2014", upcoming = "true", abstract = " For a common class of 2D mechanisms called 1-dof tree decomposable linkages, we present a software package, CayMos which uses new theoretical results from Sitharam and Wang [2014] and Sitharam et al. [2011a,b] to implement efficient algorithmic solutions for: (a) meaningfully representing and visualizing the connected components in the Euclidean realization space; (b) finding a path of continuous motion between two realizations in the same connected component, with or without restricting the realization type (sometimes called orientation type); (c) finding two “closest” realizations in different connected components.", }