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This paper presents a design system for planar eight-bar linkages that begins with a user specified 6R planar loop and five required configurations, and computes two RR constraints that yield an eight-bar linkage. There are 32 ways that these constraints can be added to the 6R loop to yield as many as 340 different linkages, which include eight of the 16 eight-bar linkage topologies. An analysis routine...