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Kinematic Predictor for Articulated Mechanisms

  • US 20120303318A1
  • Filed: 08/06/2012
  • Published: 11/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A predictor system for an articulated linkage providing a system of links connected by joints including at least one ground link referenced to a global ground reference, the predictor system comprising:

  • an electronic computer executing a stored program held in non-transitory media to;

    (1) store a system of differential equations describing a rate of change in a joint state, each joint as a function of other joint states, the joint states describing positions of the joints and held as joint state variables, where the joints include at least one work joint;

    (2) expand the joint state variables of the system of differential equations with power series representations of the joint state variables;

    (3) receive an input describing a trajectory of at least one joint state variable of the at least one work joint;

    (4) determine values of multiple orders of coefficients of the power series representations of the state variables for joints other than the at least one work joint satisfying a linear relationship among power series coefficients for the state variables; and

    (5) output data describing displacement of the joints other than the at least one work joint necessary to produce the input trajectory of the joint state variable of the at least one work joint.

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