A Multi-DOF Robotic Arm Manipulator Simulation and Visualization Platform

Abstract

As robots are employed in various fields of manufacturing process, its modeling and analysis is an important process during robot design. Therefore, based on simulation technology, a multi-degree of freedom (DOF) robot arm manipulator simulation and visualization platform is proposed due to the DOF of the joints on a robot differs in specific projects. The Denavit Hartenberg (DH) parametric scheme is adopted in the workspace analysis and relative position computation model. The latter calculates the distance and position between the end-effector and the target. And then, a test case using the platform is presented, the results showed that the platform is feasible for robot design.