Why symbolic computation in robotics

Abstract This article is organized to demosttrate various applications of symbolic computation in robot manipulator design and analysis. Four major areas—kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning and control, and pose error modeling—are extensively surveyed. A concept of an intermediate symbolic manipulator module is also described to automate and couple the processes of an interactive robot geometry design and numerical simulation.

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