CompuServe Messages

Martin, Inverse kinematics would be a very useful addition and if anyone can come up with a workable IPAS it would find a lot of uses. On a project I was involved with recently we were trying to resolve the position of free swimming underwater vehicles and control a manipulator relative to the worksite in real time. This involved a very large budget and the results were getting there as I left it. 3DS might have the links to achieve this but not in real time, which required some very large boxes of parallel processors. It could however provide a very useful tool for planning and documetation of manipulator and robotic tasks. Martin