Simple robot arm simulator

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Greetings all!

One of my favorite things about Panda is how easy it is to put together a simple, visual simulation to test an idea. For the FIRST Robotics competition this year, I programmed a very simple robot arm simulator (pendulum physics and a PID controller) that teachers can use to demonstrate basic principles of feedback control. It took about three hours total to put together :slight_smile:

If you’d like to try it, the simulator is located at http://fixermark.googlepages.com/ArmSimulator.zip. Let me know what you think!

Take care,
Mark

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rah lovely i’ll test tonight.

It does remind me of my first scientific code on Texas Instrument TI92.
It was a reverse kinematic simulator for robot arm.
Given a robot with up to 6 Segments and the corresponding freedom axis, and given an initial position and a target position of the “hand”, it was calculating the required matrix for each segment to the target

Very helpful in weekly examinations :slight_smile:)