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Analytical and visual tools for robot kinematics

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  • Computer control of a robot arm's motion requires kinematic algorithms for relating the state of a particular arm's joints to the position and orientation of its tool in three-dimensional space. To design such algorithms requires mathematical formulation of the kinematics of the arm. The resulting long, tedious algebraic manipulations suggest a need for computer-aided kinematic analysis, integrated with more conventional robotic tools. In this paper, we address this problem in four steps. The first step is to design a simple, yet sufficiently general, representation of robot arm links, which we call the orthogonal representation. The second step is to design and implement a module to generate the Forward Kinematic Equation automatically in algebraic form for arbitrary robot arm configurations. The third step is to complement the kinematics module with a robot simulator and a graphic display. The fourth step is to attack the generally intractable Inverse Kinematic problem by analyzing frequently-occurring subconfigurations, and then implementing subsolutions from which the entire arm's solution is built.
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