ROBOT-DRAW
The University of West Florida  

Electrical Engineering
 Robot Arm Modeling Site

Contact:
Dr. Rachid Manseur, 
rmanseur@uwf.edu
Phone:  850-474-3375
Fax:  850-474-3412

A three-dimensional geometric model of a robot manipulator may be created and examined using a VRML viewer. The robot is described by its Denavit-Hartenberg parameters. The current version works for robot manipulators with 3 to 6 degrees of freedom.Please choose an option in the list below.


Robot-Draw Main Menu:


Generate a Virtual 3-degree-of-freedom robot Manipulator This will take you to the 3-DOF virtual model page
Generate a Virtual 4-degree-of-freedom robot Manipulator 4-DOF robot manipulator
Generate a Virtual 5-degree-of-freedom robot Manipulator 5-DOF robot manipulator
Generate a Virtual 6-degree-of-freedom robot Manipulator 6-DOF robot manipulator
Denavit-Hartenberg Parameters A short description of DH Parameters
Robot modeling rules Modeling rules and conventions used by Robot-Draw.
Instructions for getting an image of your robot A step-by-step procedure that explains how you may obtain
an image of the VRML model display to edit, print, incorporate into a document, or any other purpose.
Link to more information on VRML The VRML repository web site
Download Netscape Browser Robot-Draw works best with Netscape and Cosmo VRML  Viewer. 
Get Cosmo Player VRML Viewer This is the place to get the latest Cosmo Player plug-in. Free. 


Robotdraw was tested and runs well with Netscape Communicator 4.0 or above 
and Cosmo Player 2.0 VRML viewer or above.

Original development by Melinda Robinette
Modified and Maintained by:

  Rachid Manseur
Robotics and Image Analysis Laboratory
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of West Florida
Last modified: August 2001