Correlation to detect isomorphism, parallelism and type of freedom

Many methods are reported to test isomorphism among kinematic chains and gear trains but they are limited to the detection of isomorphism and cannot reveal different characteristics of the chains. In the authors opinion, utility of the any technique used to detect isomorphism will be enhanced if it can reveal the Kinematic characteristics such as parallelism, type of freedom, symmetry of the chains, etc. This will help the designer. In this paper, an attempt is made to develop a technique to fulfill this need using the concept of correlation.