A common model still used in many high schools is the wooden or plaster cone used to show how the conic sections (circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) arise from slicing a cone at different angles to ...

The book starts out with a good overview of 3D and robot modeling. It then gets interesting when it starts covering forward and inverse kinematics. Most of the examples deal with simpler two- and ...

In a new study, the researchers demonstrate how their robot created a kinematic model of itself, and then used its self-model to plan motion, reach goals, and avoid obstacles in a variety of ...

Therefore, a hierarchical approach for dynamics model simplification, which considers the kinematics performance, is proposed in this paper. Firstly, considering the motion smoothness of the ...