Talk:Kinematics equations

Kinematics equations
I have created this article so that there is room in Wikipedia to describe kinematics equations for devices other than robots, specifically for things such as four-bar and six-bar linkages. Prof McCarthy (talk) 16:38, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

The article title is inappropriate
The phrases "kinematics equations" and "kinematic equations" both, with comparable incidence in common and professional usage, refer to something much broader than is descibed in this article. That is reasonably well described in the Wiki article "Kinematics" to which the querry "Kinematic equations" is redirected.

It is entirely inappropriate (misleading to a casual reader) that this article, which describes something entirely different (a very narrow subset in a specific application) should have such a general title with equivalent meaning.--Ilevanat (talk) 23:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I have fixed this. Prof McCarthy (talk) 04:36, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Article needs some rework
This article is too vague to be useful to someone unfamiliar with the subject and too sparse on details to be useful to someone who is. The matrices presented in the Loop Equations -> Transformations section contain parameters that are not described or defined, and the behavior they represent would not be obvious to the casual observer, especially since there is no mention that to use them to transform a coordinate system you need to multiply it by a vector [x,y,z,w], where w is a scale factor (often w=1).

The explanation of Parallel Chains is opaque and the concept cannot be implemented from what's in the article.

Also the link in the 4th reference is probably useless to anyone who doesn't have security access to the Cornell vpn/campus network

A lot of the information in this article is extant and presented better on the Forward kinematics page, it may be worth considering either merging the two articles or focus this article more heavily on the Denavit-Hartenberg matrix — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.132.11.102 (talk) 20:41, 16 September 2014 (UTC)