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From: dschneid@AFIT.AF.MIL (DEAN L. SCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: Robotica
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 11:31:33 GMT

In article <32819u$gf6@rockall.cc.strath.ac.uk> cadv02@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ( "g.mckeown") writes:
>From: cadv02@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ( "g.mckeown")
>Subject: Robotica
>Date: 9 Aug 1994 13:45:34 GMT


>I've just ftp-ed a copy of the Robotica modelling package by Mark Spong and John
>Nethery at UIUC and intend using it to simulate the Nasa Anthrobot. I was
>wondering if anyone out there has tried this relatively new package and, if so,
>how was it? 

>If anyone has any thoughts/info/etc on the Robotica package (or on the
>Anthrobot), I'd appreciate hearing from you.

>Sincerely,

>Gordon McKeown.


We've been using Robotica here at the Air Force Institute of Technology for 
over a year now and we just love it.  It has relieved the burden of kinematic 
equation  development and has allowed our students to concnetrate on the 
concepts rather than the numbers.  I have also used it to develop equations of 
motion for lab experiments (it got them exactly right) and for some prototype 
simulations for several consulting jobs for the Air Force Labs.  If it could 
only do inverse kinematics, my life would be complete (Dr Spong is working on 
it).

Major Dean Schneider
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Air Force Institute of Technology

