Search for: [Abstract = "This paper is concerned with avoid ability \/unavoidability of singular configurations in the redundant manipulator's kinematics with an arbitrary degree of redundancy. The dynamical system approach has been adapted as a guiding line. A self\-motion distribution has been defined, spanned by the so\-called Hamiltonian vector fields associated with the given kinematics. The Hamiltonian vector fields are established to be divergence\-free."]