Inverse Kinematics

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Use the sliders to control the position of the green ball. The robot arm will attempt to keep a hold of the green ball.
Contributed by: Rob Lockhart (March 2011)
After work by: Oussama Khatib
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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This is actually a rather simple-minded specific solution to inverse kinematics, but since the dynamic programming solution is harder to implement in a functional language, I chose this straightforward approach.
This Demonstration was inspired by Professor Oussama Khatib's Introduction to Robotics Course, available free online through Stanford's Engineering Everywhere.
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"Inverse Kinematics"
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Published: March 7 2011