1. Assur, L.: Investigation of plane hinged mechanisms with lower pairs from the point of view of their structure and classification (in Russian): Part i, ii. Bull. Petrograd Polytech. Inst 20, 329–386 (1913)
2. Baranov, G.: Classification, formation, kinematics, and kinetostatics of mechanisms with pairs of the first kind. In: Proceedings of Seminar on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Moscow 2, pp. 15–39 (1952)
3. Barreto, R.L.P., Morlin, F.V., Carboni, A.P., Martins, D.: Type synthesis of gripper mechanisms using Baranov chains. In: Submitted to the International Symposium on Multibody Systems and Mechatronics. Springer (expected 2020)
4. Comanescu, A., Comanescu, D., Dugaesescu, I., Ungureanu, L.: Optimal inverse models for bi-mobile mechanisms of walking robot legs. In: 24th DAAAM International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation, pp. 417–430 (2013)
5. Ding, H., Huang, Z., Mu, D.: Computer-aided structure decomposition theory of kinematic chains and its applications. Mech. Mach. Theor. 43(12), 1596–1609 (2008)