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From: strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com (john r strohm)
Subject: Re: Simulation Software
Message-ID: <1993Jun11.190926.26852@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 19:09:26 GMT
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In article <1993Jun11.143626.29994@news.uta.edu> panos@mecad.uta.edu writes:

>I am in the process of evaluating simulation software to
>be used for the simulation of robotic systems as well as 
>for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses.

Suggestion: IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, teach the courses with real hardware.
Preferably with two or more significantly DIFFERENT pieces of real hardware.

Simulation is well and good, but my personal perspective is that the real
learning experience comes when one sees a REAL PHYSICAL something-or-other
in action.

This is what Fred Martin and MIT have been doing for years with 6.270.
