Doug:
Strange, but just a few days ago I was following up the claims of a soft-science news story which claimed robots with “nine degrees of motion.” I couldn’t find anything to back up that claim. As far as I know, I agree with your limit of six. Hmm, maybe we could get philosophical and call time a dimension? (Would that be translation along the Serling axis?) Ed Price WB6WSN Chula Vista, CA USA From: Douglas Nix [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] Friday Question Rich, Many industrial robots have six axes or more. They are often not described in the Cartesian manner you are using as the robot actually operates in a set of spherical coordinates. They still use x, y, z, by convention, but often you’ll also find x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, etc. Doug Nix [email protected] - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
