This is the proceedings of the Third Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics
(IAK 2018) held in Lima Peru March 5-7 2018. The conference brought together scientists from
several research fields such as computational kinematics multibody systems industrial
machines robotics biomechanics mechatronics computational chemistry and vibration analysis
and embraced all key aspects of kinematics namely theoretical methods modeling optimization
experimental validation industrial applications and design.Kinematics is an exciting area of
computational mechanics and plays a central role in a great variety of fields and industrial
applications nowadays. Apart from research in pure kinematics the field deals with problems of
practical relevance that need to be solved in an interdisciplinary manner in order for new
technologies to develop.The results presented in this book should be of interest for practicing
and research engineers as well as Ph.D. students from the fields of mechanical and electrical
engineering computer science and computer graphics.
