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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 1997, 8th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 12th, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AMMapping Robotic Movement to a Three-Dimensional Coordinate SystemCraig A. MaterickIllinois Wesleyan UniversityLon Shapiro, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Craig A. Materick and Lon Shapiro, Faculty Advisor, "Mapping Robotic Movement to a Three-Dimensional CoordinateSystem" (April 12, 1997). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 33.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/1997/posters/33Poster Presentation 33 MAPPING ROBOTIC MOVEMENT TO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE SYSTEM Craig A. Materick and Lon Shapiro*, Department of Computer Science, IWU The Illinois Wesleyan Intelligence Network on Knowledge (I.W.I.N.K. )  is a project to design and implement an artificial "person'" named Shelley. Robotics, networking, and artificial intelligence will be the main topics of the preliminary work. For my research honors project, I designed the three­dimensional coordinate system in which the robotic arms move and interact with objects. The arms we have constructed are based on an arrangement of six servos,  each of which rotate approximately 185 degrees. The program takes in data about the location of an object in three-dimensional coordinates and moves each of the six motors in the arm to arrive at that point. The mathematics involved is based on intersecting circles using the following equation: Assuming the center of the circle is (h,k) and the radius is r ;  (x,y) is a point on the circle - this is used for the intersection calculations 

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