EE 548: Homework 1

Due T 08/27/2013

1. Search the robotics literature to find out what countries are ranked first, second and third according to the number of industrial robots in use.
2. Search the robotics literature to find out what countries are ranked first, second, and third according to the number of new installations of industrial robots.
3. Briefly define each of the following: forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, forward differential kinematics, inverse differential kinematics, trajectory planning, joint variable, pose, end-effector, workspace, and how robots are classified by geometry.