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   This FAQ was compiled and written by Kevin Dowling with numerous
   contributions by readers of comp.robotics. Acknowledgements are listed
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    This FAQ may be referenced as:
    
   Dowling, Kevin (1995) "Robotics: comp.robotics Frequently Asked
   Questions" Available as a hypertext document at
   http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/robotics-faq. 90+ pages.
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   Last-Modified: Thu Dec 7 16:40:11 1995
   
   
    [4]Kevin Dowling 

References
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                [11] Whatever happened to Heathkit Hero Robots?
                                       
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    Heath/Heathkit/Zenith
    Benton Harbor, MI
    tel: 800.253.0570 (Heathkit Educational Systems)
    
   Heros are no longer being made but Heath (Zenith) still offers some
   replacement parts. They had about 8 years of sales: 4,000 Hero Jr's,
   3,000 Hero 2000's, 14,000 assembled Hero 1's. Ones with less
   capability didn't do as well but higher priced ones did ok in the
   market. Service and maintainability are a problem due to the sheer
   number of bolts, pulleys, boards, sensors, cables etc. Used ones can
   be picked up cheap - but caveat emptor. Heath still sells electronics
   training kits but nothing in robotics
   
   There is a mailing group for hero owners managed by Dave Goodwin:
   [3]Hero-owners-request@smcvax.smcvt.edu
   Send the following command in the message body:
   Subscribe Hero-owners
   
   You may also want to include a HELP command line to get the commands
   and their syntax. Note that the subject on the message is irrelevant.
   Of course, to post a message to the group, just send it to hero-owners
   at the same host.
   
   The Mailserv software can handle files as well, but none are currently
   available. Hopefully, list subscribers will start to provide any nifty
   code they write for the archive.
   
   Finally, the list of subscribers is available from the Mailserv. See
   the help file for how to get it. Questions or problems should be
   addressed to [4]Goodwin@smcvax.smcvt.edu, not at the waldo address.
   
   San Francisco Robotics Society of America (bsmall@sfrsa.com) used to
   have a Hero robot group meeting every month.
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   Last-Modified: Sun Aug 11 08:51:12 1996
   
   
    [5]Kevin Dowling 

References

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                 [12] What's available for Puma Manipulators?
                                       
   Pumas are probably the most common robot in university laboratories
   and one of the most common assembly robots. Designed by Vic Schienman
   and financed by GM at MIT in the mid-70's, the Puma (Programmable
   Universal Machine for Assembly) was produced for many years by
   Unimation (later purchased by Westinghouse and sold at a loss later to
   Staubli, a Swiss company) These robots and their progeny are found in
   many university labs.
   
   
    
    Staubli Unimation, Inc.
    201 Parkway West
    Hillside Park
    Duncan, SC 29334
    tel: 803.433.1980
    fax: 803.486.9906
    
    Staubli Unimation Ltd
    Unit G, Stafford Park 18
    Telford, Shropshire, TF3 3Ax
    UK
    
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   _PUMA singularities_
   
   The PUMA has three singularities: the ``alignment'' singularity (wrist
   is as close to the axis of joint 1 as it can get), the ``elbow''
   singularity (elbow is fully extended or folded up; the latter is not
   possible because of joint limits), and the wrist singularity (the axes
   of joints 4 and 6 are aligned).
   
   The angles corresponding to these depend on the Denavit-Hartenburg
   (DH) parameter assignment. For the PUMA, the definitions given in [1]
   are perhaps the most commonly used Using these, and letting A2, A3,
   D3, and D4 denote the translational DH offsets, the singularities
   occur when the following are true:
   
 Alignment:     D4*sin(ang2+ang3) + A2*cos(ang2) - A3*cos(ang2+ang3) == 0

 Elbow:         sin(ang3 - atan2(A3,D4)) == 0

 Wrist:         sin(ang5) == 0

 Typical offset values for the PUMA 560 are

 A2 =  431.80
 D3 =  149.09
 A3 =  20.32
 D4 =  433.070

   Information provided by John Lloyd [3]lloyd@curly.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
   
  Puma Gear Ratios
  
   Joint #         Gear Ratio
   --------        -----------
    1               0.01597
    2               0.00931
    3               0.01884
    4               0.01428
    5               0.01391
    6               0.01303

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  Puma Quirk
  
   [Gary McMurray] There is an undocumented bug in the tool mode of the
   PUMA robot under real-time path control. It's found by trying to
   control the robot in tool mode using the alter command. Unimation
   (Westinghouse at that time), has confirmed the bug.
   
   Basically, the bug consists of this: during real-time control, such as
   alter mode, the controller does not update the rotation matrix for the
   tool coordinate system as the robot moves. Thus, motion commands
   issued to move along the new y axis, result in a motion along the
   original y axis. The same goes for rotations as well.
   
  Tech Report and Matlab Toolbox
  
   [Peter Corke] A technical report is available which provides details
   of the Unimation Puma servo system, including details of interfacing
   via the arm-interface board, digital board firmware, and analog
   board/motor dynamics. (54 pages) It can be found at
   [4]ftp://janus.cat.csiro.au/pub/pic/pumaservo.Z
   
   A Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB which provides functions for homogeneous
   transformations, quaternions, forward and inverse kinematics,
   trajectories, forward and inverse dynamics, and graphical animation.
   The Toolbox uses a very general method of describing the kinematics
   and dynamics of any serial-link manipulators. Descriptors for the
   Unimate Puma 560 and the Stanford arm are included. Location at
   [5]ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/misc/robot
   
   That directory contains an extensive manual, doc.ps (72 pages), as
   well as all the M-files.
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    _Trident Robotics and Research, Inc._
    2516 Matterhorn Drive
    Wexford, PA 15090-7962
    tel: 412.934.8348
    net: [6]robodude@cmu.edu
    
   Hardware for older LSI/11 based Puma's.
   
   A board for replacing the PUMA LSI/11 controller with the CPU of your
   choice: The board is basically an I/O board with D/A's, A/D's, encoder
   counters and some digital I/O lines and is available to connect to
   several bus architectures including VMEbus, IBM-PC bus, Multibus and
   IndustryPack bus. (with others under consideration) It comes as a
   two-board set: A PUMA board and a bus interface board. This allows
   several buses to be supported and keeps the analog electronics away
   from the noise of the bus. (It also makes switching buses cheap, if
   the need ever arises.) Since it is primarily an I/O board set, it can
   be used in applications other than controlling a PUMA.
   
   The user's manuals are available by anonymous ftp at
   [7]ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/anon/user/deadslug/trc4um.ps and
   [8]ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/anon/user/deadslug/trd0002.ps
   
   This is a PostScript file that can be printed or viewed (to conserve
   paper) and describes the remote board that mounts inside the Unimate
   controller, replacing the VAL computer. The file trd0001.ps shows the
   board arrangement diagrammatically.
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   _Useful Puma references_
   
   Richard Paul, Brian Shimano, and Gordon Mayer, _Kinematic Control
   Equations for Simple Manipulators_. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,
   and Cybernetics, Vol SMC-11, No. 6, June 1981.
   
   B Armstrong, O Khatib, and J. Burdick The Explicit Dynamic Model and
   Inertial Parameters of the PUMA 560 Arm Proceedings IEEE Int.
   Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 1986 San Francisco, CA
   pp510-518
   
   P.I. Corke and B. Armstrong-Helouvry. _A search for consensus among
   model parameters reported for the Puma 560 Robot._ Proc. IEEE Conf.
   Robotics and Automation, 1994 pp. 1608-1613
   It is also available via anonyous ftp from
   [9]ftp://janus.cat.csiro.au/pub/pic/icra94.ps.gz
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   Last-Modified: Sun Aug 11 08:51:29 1996
   
   
    [10]Kevin Dowling 

References

   1. file://localhost/usr/nivek/faq/HTML/copyright.html
   2. file://localhost/usr/nivek/faq/HTML/TOC.html
   3. mailto:lloyd@curly.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
   4. ftp://janus.cat.csiro.au/pub/pic/pumaservo.ps.Z
   5. ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/misc/robot
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               [13] What kinds of Robotics Simulators are there?
                                       
   Simulation allows researchers, designers and users to construct robots
   and task environments for a fraction of the cost and time of real
   systems. They differ significantly from traditional CAD tools in that
   they allow study of geometries, kinematics, dynamics and motion
   planning. This list is NOT a comparative analysis of the different
   systems but rather a list of systems that are available.
   
   [3][13.1] Commercial Simulators
          
   [4][13.2] Shareware and Freeware Simulators
          
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  [13.1] Commercial Simulators
  
   _Auto Simulations, Inc._
   
   
    
    655 Medical Drive
    Bountiful, UT 84010
    tel: 801.298.1398
    contact: Teresa Francis, ext 330
    
   Products: AutoMod II Platforms: ? Cost: ?
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   _CADSI_
   
   
    
    2651 Crosspark Rd
    Coralville, IA 52241
    tel: 319.626.6700
    tel: 319.626.3488
    net: [5]marketing@cadsi.com
    url: [6]http://www.cadsi.com
    
   DADS - kinematics and dynamics package. Have ProEngineer to CADSI
   interface. Supports rigid and flexible body analysis. Animation and
   interfaces to FEA/FEM and CAD programs.
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   _Deneb Robotics, Inc._
   
   
    
    3285 Lapeer Road West
    PO Box 214687
    Auburn Hills, MI
    tel: 810.377.6900
    fax: 810.377.8125
    net: marketing@deneb.com
    url: [7]http://www.deneb.com/
    
   See the URL or send email for offices all over the world.
   
   Deneb Robotics, was founded in 1985 develops 3D graphics-based factory
   simulation, telerobotic, and virtual reality software.
   
   Products include IGRIP, ENVISION, Deneb/ERGO, UltraArc, UltraFinish,
   UltraPaint, UltraSpot, QUEST, Virtual NC, and TELEGRIP suite of
   simulation software packages utilize geometrically exact data to
   develop the models used in simulation, analysis, programming, and
   control applications.
   
   Platforms include UNIX workstations from HP, SGI and Sun and Window NT
   (486/Pentium) machines.
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   _Mechanical Dynamics Inc._
   
   
    
    2301 Commonwealth Blvd
    Ann Arbor, MI 48105
    tel: 313.944.3800
    fax: 313.994.6418
    net: hotline@adams.com
    
   ADAMS is a general purpose dynamics simulator: it can be used to
   simulate any mechanism. You input the model you want to simulate, and
   ADAMS builds the system of equations, and solves it through time. You
   can do kinematic, static, quasi-static and dynamic simulations. And
   then, you can study the results (forces, accelerations and so on).
   
   It has a good graphical interface, although it's non-standard (it
   doesn't use OpenLook or Motif, but it's own windowing system). But if
   you want to study something not very common, you will have to deal
   with the text interface, and perhaps Fortran programming. It's not
   very easy to learn.
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   _Silma/Cimstation_
   
   
    
    1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road
    Cupertino, California 95014
    tel: 408.725.8908
    
   Product:
   
   CimStation
   
   Platforms:
   
   SGI-4D, SUN SparcStation, Apollo, Intergraph, Computervision, HP, IBM
   Risc6000 and DEC.
   
   Cost:
   
   Base system around $55K (commercial license) They also have a
   University Partnership Program to enable universities to purchase
   CimStation for around $20K US and $25K International.
   
   Features:
   
   Silma offers application solutions for Spot Welding, Arc Welding,
   Painting, Stamping and Assembly, as well as Robot Calibration Tools.
   Also, SILMA has direct CAD interfaces to Computervision CADDS,
   Parametric Technology Corporation Pro/ENGINEER, IBM CATIA ans MCS
   ANVIL5000. We also support VDAFS and SET in addition to IGES. Finally,
   in addition to CimStation Robotics, we also offer SILMA(R) CimStation
   Inspection - used to create, simulate and edit DMIS programs for
   coordinate measuring machines- (CMMs) and SILMA(R) CimStation NC
   Verification- used to simulate and verify NC part programs.
   
   Provides: Basic CAD Tools: 2D and 3D solid and wireframe, IGES
   interface, Robot Modelling: generate the required governing equations
   (iterative or closed form) automatically for "many" classes of robots
   Path Generation Kinematic Simulation with Collision Detection Dynamic
   Simulation (CimStation only at this point) I/O Operations.
   
   John Craig, who wrote the book, Introduction to Robotics is head of
   Silma's R and D. Silma has a programming environment called SIL
   complete with its own PASCAL-like iterative language with graphics and
   robotics extensions. CimStation is built out of this language. This
   allows you to add your own functionality. E.g. your own path planner.
   You can also write C-code, compile it, and add it to the system.
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    Robot Simulations Ltd.
    
   
    
    Lynnwood Busines Centre
    Lynnwood Terrace
    Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE4 6UL
    England
    tel: +44 (0)91 272 3673
    fax: +44 (0)91 272 0121
    net: [8]Sales@rosl.demon.co.uk
    or [9]Support@rosl.demon.co.uk
    url: [10]http://www.rosl.com
    
   US contact:
   
   
    
    John Lapham
    Applications Engineer
    International Business Link
    17105 San Carlos Blvd. Suite A6151
    Ft. Myers Beach, FL 33931
    tel: 813.466.0488
    fax: 813.466.7270
    net: [11]lapham@gate.net
    
   [12]Robot Simulations (RSL) develops and markets the world's first
   microcomputer based industrial robot simulation software named
   Workspace. The package has been selling since 1989. The package uses
   3d graphics to simulate robots and their associated machinery in a
   workcell, and is capable of offline programming industrial and
   educational robots in many different robot languages. It runs on a PC
   and is $5K to educational institutions. $26K for industrial version.
   
Workspace 3 robot simulation:           Kinematic modeller
Discrete event simulation               Interactive creation of new mechanimsm
   Library of standard robots
   Advanced robot languages             Dynamics simulator
      Variables                            Forces and torques calculated
      Subroutines                          Graphical representation of results
      Loop structures
      Sophisticated motion commands     Text editor
   Accurate representation of mechanisms   Integral editor for track and
   Calculation of cycle times                  teachpoint files
   Collision detection
                                        Solid 3-d rendering
Integrated CAD system                   Fast shaded animations in 256 colours
   Constructive solid geometry
   Library of standard 3d primitives    Computer Aided Learning
      Extruded polylines                Simple authoring of training exercises
      Spheres
      Cones                             Calibration
      Cylinders                            In-built robot and fixture
      Boxes                                   calibration system
      Surfaces
      Solids of rotation                User Manuals
   DXF and IGES import facilities          Tutorial exercises
                                           Example robots and workcells

   The system is in use throughout Europe and the Far East in both
   Industry and Education with several hundred seats. Sales in the USA
   are relatively recent.
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   _Tecnomatix Technologies/Robcad_
   
   
    39750 Grand River Avenue Suite A-3 Novi, MI 48375 tel: 313.471.6140
    fax: 313.471.6147
    
   Platforms: HP, Silicon Graphics, IBM and Sun.
   
   Tecnomatix makes several packages for simulation including ones for
   Spot welding, Arc welding, Painting, Teleoperation (Martel), CMM and
   Drilling. They also have an open systems environment, ROSE, that
   allows user customization and interface design. ROBCAD itself allows
   robot modeling (library of 100 robots is supplied), collision free
   path generation, importation of IGES, VDAFS and SET files and direct
   interface with Catia and ComputerVision.
   
   [GMF - the entry that used to be here, no longer supports OLPW-200,
   instead they are a Robcad reseller]
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  [13.2] Sharware and Freeware Simulators
  
   Many university groups and individuals have developed simulators for
   their own work and made them available via the net.
   
    Ars Magna:
    
   The ARS MAGNA robot simulator provides an abstract world in which a
   planner controls a mobile robot. The simulator also includes a simple
   graphical user-interface which uses the CLX interface to the X window
   system. Version 1.0 of the ARS MAGNA simulator is documented in Yale
   Technical Report YALEU/DCS/RR #928, "ARS MAGNA: The Abstract Robot
   Simulator". This report is available in the distribution as a
   Postscript(tm) file, as well as from:
   
   
    
    Paula Murano
    Yale University
    Department of Computer Science
    P.O. Box 2158 Yale Station
    New Haven, CT 06520-2158
    net: murano@cs.yale.edu
    
   Comments to Sean Engelson. net: engelson@cs.yale.edu
   
   ARS MAGNA is available by anonymous ftp from
   [13]ftp://ftp.cs.yale.edu/pub/nisp/
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    EROS [Erann's RObot Simulator]
    
   EROS is a mobile robot simulator. Unlike other simulators, EROS does
   not simulate any particular robot. Instead, EROS is a sort of robot
   simulation construction kit. It is designed to allow users to assemble
   their own robots from reusable software components, and to run those
   robots in user-designed environments. EROS draws inspiration from
   Hanks and Firby's truckworld simulator, but EROS operates at a lower
   level of abstraction than truckworld, and so it is by some measure
   more realistic. EROS has been used to simulate actual physical robots,
   and the behavior produced by EROS has, in some cases, made plausible
   predictions and accurate postdictions of the behaviors of the real
   robots.
   
   NOTE: This is a beta-test version of EROS. It runs only under
   Macintosh Common Lisp version 2.0. Many of its features have not been
   tested (although it has been used in a few applications, so parts of
   it work quite well!) and the documentation is not very coherent.
   
   EROS is available by anonymous ftp at:
   [14]ftp://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov:pub/gat/eros.sit.hqx
   
   This is an early version for beta testing only. It runs only under MCL
   2.0. It will not run under any other version of Common Lisp, including
   MCL 1.3. (EROS relies heavily on Macintosh graphics and CLOS.) It also
   includes only a single example robot, so out of the box it doesn't do
   very much. You have to be willing to do a little hacking to use it as
   it currently stands. A future release will have more turnkey
   functionality, but it's pretty much an OEM product at this point.
   
   Contact: Erann Gat net: gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov
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    Flakey
    
   A mobile robot simulator and controller. Contact: Kurt Konolige of SRI
   A Preliminary version of a mobile robot simulator and controller. All
   written in C, but you need Motif to run the graphics.
   
   This is essentially the same software run on Flakey, (robot at SRI
   used for research in AI), behaviors using fuzzy control (there's lots
   more on Flakey in terms of sensor interpretation and higher-level
   control, but I haven't ported that from LISP to C yet). There are
   three example behaviors implemented, showing dumb obstacle avoidance
   and goal achievement. There's not much documentation yet, but I will
   get some out over the next few months.
   
   The intent is to make the simulator/controller suitable for a course
   in mobile robotics, and to have eventually a cheap physical platform
   that will imitate the simulator (or vice versa).
   
   Available by anonymous ftp from:
   [15]ftp://ftp.ai.sri.com/pub/konolige/erratic-ver1.tar.Z Uncompress,
   untar and check the README file for installation.
   
   A collection of five tech reports on Flakey's fuzzy controller is also
   available at:
   [16]ftp://ocean.ai.sri.com/pub/saffiott/flakey_papers_93.tar.Z
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   _MATLAB Robotics Toolbox_ [Peter Corke] A Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB
   which provides functions for homogeneous transformations, quaternions,
   forward and inverse kinematics, trajectories, forward and inverse
   dynamics, and graphical animation. The Toolbox uses a very general
   method of describing the kinematics and dynamics of any serial-link
   manipulators. Descriptors for the Unimate Puma 560 and the Stanford
   arm are included. Location at
   [17]ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/contrib/misc/robot
   
   That directory contains an extensive manual, doc.ps (72 pages), as
   well as all the M-files.
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   _Simderella 2.0_ Simderella is a robot simulator consisting of three
   programs:
     * connel: the controller
     * simmel: the simulator
     * bemmel: the X-windows oriented graphics back-end
       
   Simmel is the part which actually simulates the robot. It performs a
   few matrix multiplications, based on the Denavit Hartenberg method,
   calculates velocities with the Newton-Euler scheme, and communicates
   with the other two programs.
   
   Bemmel only displays the robot. It is a fast general-purpose display
   method which places separate objects in space depending on the
   homogeneous matrices it receives from simmel.
   
   Connel is the controller, which must be designed by the user (in the
   distributed version, connel is a simple inverse kinematics routine. I
   didn't include my neural networks.)
   
   The three programs use Unix sockets for communication. This means that
    1. you need sockets
    2. all the programs can run on different machines
       
   Since data communication is high-level (meaning, in this case, that I
   do not send doubles, integers, and so on, but encode them first),
   running the programs on different architectures is no problem. In
   fact, it was thus designed that connel can, at the same time, control
   a real robot _and_ the simulated one.
   
   Simderella likes to sleep; that is, when nothing happens, no processor
   time will be used.
   
   Version 2.0 of simderella is here. Major adaptations:
     * now features Imakefiles
     * compiles & runs on Solaris and DEC Alpha
     * some C bugs squashed
     * bemmel can grab robot with mouse
     * major improvements to documentation (i.e., an introductory article
       describing the package).
     * includes a stand-alone version of bemmel for drawing geometrical
       objects, with viewoint rotation. Figures can be dumped to xfig for
       later inclusion in your papers.
       
   The software is available as a compressed tar file from:
   [18]ftp://galba.mbfys.kun.nl/pub/neuro-software/pd/simderella.1.0.tar.
   Z [IP 131.174.82.73] Extract the simulator from the tar file by typing
   at the Unix command line:
   
   
          zcat simderella.2.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
          
   or use your favourite extracting commands. In the simderella/
   directory, type
   
   xmkmf
          
   make Makefiles
          
   make depend
          
   make
          
   The sub-directories are recursively visited and executables are
   compiled and linked.
   
   Supported architectures: Sun (SunOS and Solaris), SGI, DEC Alpha,
   HP700, 386 et al running Linux)
   
   If you're impatient, execute the thing as follows:
   
   cd bemmel; Zoscar & cd ..
          
   cd simmel; source env; simmel1 ns & cd ..
          
   cd connel; connel s
          
   all on one machine. Then type commands like
   
   
          fix-target 50 50 50
          inverse 50 50 50
          
   or move the mouse pointer in the bemmel window and press an `l' or `r'
   or `u' or `d' or .... [CMU used Simderella recently to facilitate
   software development and testing of the Shuttle servicing robot before
   the hardware and mechanics are available to test the various parts of
   the controller. it has also been linked to TCA calls and worked very
   well - nivek]
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   _Public Domain SGI based simulator_
   
   This is a Silicon Graphics based delux robot simulator with lots of
   graphics Stuff. It was written by Andrew Conway and Craig Dillon as
   undergraduates for an electrical engineering project at the University
   of Melbourne. Not much in installation instructions. There is a latex
   manual with usage instructions and the mathematics. Warning: It is
   4.3Mbytes compressed, and the US-Australia link is quite slow.
   
   Disclaimer: I [Andrew] haven't used this software for years. If it
   malfunctions, don't sue me or Craig, we don't guarantee it.
   [19]ftp://krang.vis.citri.edu.au/pub/robot
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    MODULSH
    
   The complete programe is divided into three menus: Main, Drawing and
   Robot Menus. features such as selecting elements or the complete
   screen, rotating, translating, zooming, enlarging or reducing the
   scale and passing to the two dimensional drawing window from the three
   dimensional one are available.
   
   The Drawing Menu also offers many other possibilities like drawing
   three dimensional circles, ellipses, arcs, elliptical arcs, cylinders,
   cones, prisms, ellipsoids, toroids, etc. In addition to these, it is
   also possible to obtain hidden line drawing and to change the point
   numbers of the circular drawing elements. Whereas in Robots Menu,
   operations like selecting modules from the sub-menus, containing
   graphics, which concern body, wrist, hand systems and work spaces of
   robots, finding direct and inverse kinematics solution of these
   systems, point by point simulation of the robot motions, changing
   Denavit-Hartenberg parameters and joint freedom extremums from the
   menus can be performed. WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil/pd1:/
   OAK.Oakland.Edu/pd1:/MODULSH2.ZIP MODULSH1.ZIP is the design and
   animation of robots, 1 of 2. MODULSH2.ZIP is the design and animation
   of robots, 2 of 2 Author:
   
   
    Dr. Hikmet Kocabas
    Istanbul Technical University
    MKKOCABS%TRITU.BITNET@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR
    MKKOCABS@TRITU.BITNET
    
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    Robotica
    
   
    
    Contact: Mark W. Spong
    Coordinated Science Lab
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    1308 W. Main St.
    Urbana, IL 61801
    tel: 217.333.4281
    fax: 217.244.1653
    net: spong@lagrange.csl.uiuc.edu
    
   [20]http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/directory/faculty/Spong.html
   
   Robotica is a trademark of The Board of Trustees of the University of
   Illinois.
   
   Robotica is a collection of useful robotics problem solving functions
   encapsulated in a Mathematica package. Utilizing Mathematica's
   computational features allows results to be generated in purely
   symbolic form.

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