While a huge number of researchers use hybrid serial parallel systems most modern kinematics frameworks still lack support. Examples include openrave used in the moveit stack or the matlab robotics toolbox which only support inverse kinematics for serial mechanisms.This lack of support often leaves developers with essentially two choices:
Either shoehorn their hybrid robots into a framework not designed to handle them or be left to implement their own kinematic solvers.
TriP is a lightweight and easy-to-use package directly modeling hybrid mechanisms and calculating their inverse and forward kinematics.
While a huge number of researchers use hybrid serial parallel systems most modern kinematics frameworks still lack support. Examples include openrave used in the moveit stack or the matlab robotics toolbox which only support inverse kinematics for serial mechanisms.This lack of support often leaves developers with essentially two choices:
Either shoehorn their hybrid robots into a framework not designed to handle them or be left to implement their own kinematic solvers.
TriP is a lightweight and easy-to-use package directly modeling hybrid mechanisms and calculating their inverse and forward kinematics.