A software package for computer-aided robotics education

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.