Non-Cartesian actuators are improving applications where they weren't even feasible before. Full definition of their dynamics and kinematics helps designers extract maximum performance from these ...

Conventional machine tools will have stiff competition at EMO 2001 as several new parallel kinematic machines make their debuts. A new type of tripod PKM, Heckert's SKM 400 has a special couling ...

Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

Homogeneous vector and plane, homogeneous transformation, position and orientation transformations, kinematics and inverse kinematic solutions of robot manipulators and mobile robots, Jacobian and ...

This new Kinematics Toolbox, for use with the company's MotionWorks IEC Controllers, is an IEC61131-3 user library that can be imported into projects created with the company's MotionWorks IEC Pro, ...