This is a prototype of JavaSketchpad, a World-Wide-Web component of The Geometer's Sketchpad. Copyright ©1990-1998 by Key Curriculum Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions of this work were funded by the National Science Foundation (awards DMI 9561674 & 9623018).

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ROBOTIC ARM

Try to grasp the test object (w/o bumping it) by dragging the control points along the top of the sketch plane. Animating a control point along its segment or circle will show a range of motion for the arm.

Control Point E for Slider Arm q

Control Point K for Rotator Arm u

Control Point S for Sliding Arm a

Control Point T for Rotating Arm a

Control Point L for Gripper Arm g