From: earlcox@earlcoxreports.com   
      
   "slinux"  wrote in message   
   news:1117139622.084217.76280@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   > This is not a homeowork or end of term for any course. i work at a   
   > company and i am trying to figure out which controller would be best   
   > suitable for a job. now we all work with conventional controllers and   
   > we need to find out if changing a controller to a more intelligent one   
   > would make any difference. we already have a 3DOF robot arm with   
   > conventional controller.   
   > if you noticed, i only asked for a simulation and not the actual   
   > working model.   
   >   
      
      
      
   > This is not a homework or end of term for any course. I work at a   
   > company and I am trying to figure out which controller would be best   
   > suitable for a job. now we all work with conventional controllers and   
   > we need to find out if changing a controller to a more intelligent one   
   > would make any difference. we already have a 3DOF robot arm with   
   > conventional controller.   
   > if you noticed, I only asked for a simulation and not the actual   
   > working model.   
   >   
      
   You work for a company but you are doing research with your Yahoo id. OK, I   
   might buy that.   
      
   You need to figure out which controller would be best (or what kind of   
   difference one would have over the other), but you only need to know about   
   the simulator, you aren't interested in the implementation (which, of   
   course, would be essential in order to map value point analysis and   
   feature-versus-benefit analysis to your actual business environment. This I   
   find very difficult to buy.   
      
   You already have a 3 degrees-of-freedom arm but you are looking to see if an   
   "intelligent" controller would make any difference -- OK, what's wrong with   
   the current robot arm? What kind of work application? Simulators simulate   
   many things ---  a 3-dof arm for assembling cars or aircraft would work in a   
   somewhat different manner from one handling nuclear fuel rods or from one   
   unloading palettes from a truck bed, or from one picking up rocks on the   
   surface of another planet (or moon). This I also find difficult to buy.   
      
   Asking for the simulator and not actual implementation details is,   
   generally, a dead give away that this is an academic exercise.   
      
   Oh, and "please reply asap" is another hint that you just might be a student   
   up against the wall.   
      
   That's all I gotta say.   
   Earl   
      
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