Robot-Draw, an Internet-based visualization tool for robotics education

Bibliographic Data

ID20296842
AuthorsM F Robinette, Michelle Robinette, Rachid Manseur (University of West Florida)
Year2001
Volume44
Issue1
Pages29-34
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1109/13.912707
OpenAlexW2136552245
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

Robot manipulators are described geometrically by their Denavit-Hartenberg parameters table. This article describes a package that combines recently developed Internet-based programming tools to generate three-dimensional virtual models of robot manipulators from a DH parameter table. Robot-Draw combines hypertext markup language (HTML), practical extraction and report language (PERL), and virtual reality modeling language (VRML). Internet users can generate three-dimensional robot manipulator models on their computer screens, navigate around the robot model and examine it from any angle. The package was designed as a visualization aid in robotics education and allows educators and students to easily visualize robotic structures and directly evaluate the effect of a parameter variation on the overall robot. Robot-Draw can also be a useful tool in the structural design of robot manipulators. Users with Internet connections can use the University of West Florida Robot-Draw package at the UWF Electrical Engineering web server by connecting to http://uwf.edu/ece/robotdraw.htm

Arm solution · Human–computer interaction · Markup language · Mobile robot · Multimedia · Robot · Robot control · Robotics · The Internet · Visualization · VRML · World Wide Web · XML · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Experimental Learning in Engineering · Mechatronics Education and Applications · Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

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