Modern Robotics, Chapter 2.2: Degrees of Freedom of a Robot

This is a video supplement to the book "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control," by Kevin Lynch and Frank Park, Cambridge University Press 2017. See http://modernrobotics.org for information on the book, free software, and other materials.

This video describes common robot joints and derives Grubler's formula for calculating the degrees of freedom of a mechanism.

This video is a brief summary of material from the book, and it is not meant to stand alone. For more details, such as an explanation of the notation, please consult the book and the other videos.

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