A software package for computer-aided robotics education

Author

Manseur, Rachid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1409

Abstract

The kinematics of robot manipulators is a corner stone in the study of robotics in general. The computational complexity of the kinematics quite often prevents robotics instructors from using robots of general structure in their illustrative examples and assignments. The software discussed in this article, developed from recent research to support an undergraduate course in robotics, offers computational relief to educators and students in the study of robot manipulators with revolute joints and renders their use as classroom examples possible. Five or six revolute joints robot manipulators of general architecture can be solved easily with the help of this software

Keywords

courseware; educational courses; manipulator kinematics; computer-aided robotics education; robot manipulator kinematics; robotics instructors; software package; undergraduate course; Computational geometry; Computer architecture; Computer science education; Educational robots; Kinematics; Manipulator dynamics; Orbital robotics; Service robots; Software packages; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3348-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1996.568528

Filename

568528