Re: [PSES] Friday Question

[Doug Powell]

In my local area we have a ‎company Wolf Robotics. They make multi-axis robotics and degrees of motion simply indicate the number of directions possible on an articulated arm. These "robots" can be seen on their website. Another example is a medical company has developed a highly articulated robotic probe (HARP) that can thread it's way through organs and tissue with minimal damage.    Doug Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com ‎https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01   ‎ From: Ed Price Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 5:07 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Reply To: Ed Price Subject: Re: [PSES] Friday Question 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:d...@mac.com] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 2:50 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG 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 d...@mac.com   - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <emc-p...@ieee.org> 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 <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <emc-p...@ieee.org> 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 <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com>