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Ch. 3 - Basic Pick and Place

Forward kinematics The spatial algebra gets us pretty close to what we need for our pick and place algorithm. But remember that the interface we have with the robot reports measured joint positions, and expects commands in the form of joint positions. So our remaining task is to convert between j

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Forward kinematics

The spatial algebra gets us pretty close to what we need for our pick and place algorithm. But remember that the interface we have with the robot reports measured joint positions, and expects commands in the form of joint positions. So our remaining task is to convert between joint angles and cartesian frames. We'll do this in steps, the first step is to go from joint positions to cartesian frames: this is known as forward kinematics. [...] You might be tempted to think tha

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Forward kinematics The spatial algebra gets us pretty close to what we need for our pick and place algorithm. But remember that the interface we have with the robot reports measured joint positions, and expects commands in the form of joint positions. So our remaining task is to

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