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Forward kinematics

In French:
Cinématique directe

Definition

Calculation of the position and orientation of a robot’s tool from the angles or positions of its joints. For an open-chain arm the calculation is direct: one geometric transformation per joint is chained together, from the base to the tool, and the result is unique. It is the opposite problem to inverse kinematics.

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