Surfaces containing two parabolas through each point

We prove (under some technical assumptions) that each surface in $\mathbb R^3$ containing two arcs of parabolas with axes parallel to $Oz$ through each point has a parametrization $\left(\frac{P(u,v)}{R(u,v)},\frac{Q(u,v)}{R(u,v)},\frac{Z(u,v)}{R^2(u,v)}\right)$ for some $P,Q,R,Z\in\mathbb R[u,v]$ such that $P,Q,R$ have degree at most 1 in $u$ and $v$, and $Z$ has degree at most 2 in $u$ and $v$. The proof is based on the observation that one can consider a parabola with vertical axis as an isotropic circle; this allows us to use methods of the recent work by M. Skopenkov and R. Krasauskas in which all surfaces containing two Euclidean circles through each point are classified. Such approach also allows us to find a similar parametrization for the surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ containing two arbitrary isotropic circles through each point (under the same technical assumptions). Finally, we get some results concerning the top view (the projection along the $Oz$ axis) of the surfaces in question.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, appendix by M. Skopenkov and R. Krasauskas. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.06481 by other author

Advances in Robot Kinematics : Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advances in Robot Kinematics

International audienceThe motion of mechanisms, kinematics, is one of the most fundamental aspect of robot design, analysis and control but is also relevant to other scientific domains such as biome- chanics, molecular biology, . . . . The series of books on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) report the latest achievement in this field. ARK has a long history as the first book was published in 1991 and since then new issues have been published every 2 years. Each book is the follow-up of a single-track symposium in which the participants exchange their results and opinions in a meeting that bring together the best of world’s researchers and scientists together with young students. Since 1992 the ARK symposia have come under the patronage of the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine Science-IFToMM.This book is the 13th in the series and is the result of peer-review process intended to select the newest and most original achievements in this field. For the first time the articles of this symposium will be published in a green open-access archive to favor free dissemination of the results. However the book will also be o↵ered as a on-demand printed book.The papers proposed in this book show that robot kinematics is an exciting domain with an immense number of research challenges that go well beyond the field of robotics.The last symposium related with this book was organized by the French National Re- search Institute in Computer Science and Control Theory (INRIA) in Grasse, France