A novel experimental setup for Atlas II robot using Visual Basic

Author

Korayem, M.H. ; Omoumi, A.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

1997

fDate

23-25 Sep 1997

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Considering the rapid development in using PCs and advance computer graphics, simulation and control of robots and graphical representation and prediction of the programmed movement seems essential. On these bases, by using the Visual Basic programming language and under the MS Windows graphical operating system, a software has been developed that simulates the Atlas II robot movement. Three experiments are designed-system acquaintance, direct kinematics and inverse kinematics-for using this software in the robotics lab. Also three observing aspects for showing direct kinematics, inverse kinematics and point-to-point movement are covered in this package. This package with a little change in the source program can be used for any robot in order to show and simulate its movement program for any educational or industrial purposes

Keywords

computer aided instruction; digital simulation; manipulator kinematics; operating systems (computers); robot programming; user interfaces; Atlas II robot; MS Windows graphical operating system; Visual Basic; advance computer graphics; direct kinematics; graphical representation; inverse kinematics; point-to-point movement; programmed movement; system acquaintance; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Kinematics; Packaging; Personal communication networks; Predictive models; Robot control; Service robots; Visual BASIC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Fourth Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Toowoomba, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8025-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMVIP.1997.625226

Filename

625226