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Jonathan Meyer edited this page Apr 26, 2017 · 1 revision

Purpose

Descartes is library intended to perform motion-planning on (possibly under-constrained) Cartesian trajectories for robotic manipulators. You can read/listen to the methodology here.

Some quick notes on the constraints of Descartes:

  • Descartes effectively requires closed form kinematics. See the moveit ikfast documentation.
  • It works well for 6 DOF robots and a path with 1 extra degree of freedom (e.g. freedom about the tool-z axis). High degree of freedom problems scale poorly with current techniques, and you may want to consider a numerical solver.

In Practice

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