Dynamic simulation of robot manipulators using graphical programming packages

Abstract

There are software packages to simulate robot dynamics. We discuss dynamic simulation of robot manipulators using graphical programming packages, namely Labview and Simulink. Labview is a graphical programming package capable of data acquisition, data analysis, data presentation and real-time control. Simulink is a general graphical simulation environment for dynamic systems. Techniques using Labview to simulate robot dynamics are discussed and simulation examples are presented.