University of Notre Dame
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME 469: Introduction to Robotics
Homework 4

B. Goodwine
Spring 2000
Issued: February 17, 2000
Due: February 24, 2000

Unless otherwise indicated, all the problems are from the course text, Craig, Introduction to Robotics. Unless otherwise indicated, each problem is worth 10 points.

  1. 3.11 Also compute the forward kinematics.
  2. 3.16 Also compute the forward kinematics.
  3. 3.21 Also compute the forward kinematics.
  4. Write a computer program to numerically compute the inverse kinematics for the three link manipulator shown in Craig, Figure 3.29. Hint: using Mathematica or Matlab root finding routines is probably the easiest way to do this.
  5. In class, we computed the inverse kinematics for a Puma 560 using Pieper's method. This homework problem is to find one of the solutions for the given data (recall that there are four solutions). For the physical parameters of the robot, let
    a2 = 2 ft
    d3 = 0.5 ft
    a3 = .16666 ft
    d4 = 2 ft

    Let the desired location and orientation of the {6} frame relative to the {0} frame be


Last updated: February 17, 2000
B. Goodwine (jgoodwin@nd.edu)