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% Copyright (C) 1993-2013, by Peter I. Corke
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% This file is part of The Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB (RTB).
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% RTB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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%%begin
% A large number of Toolbox functions can operate on symbolic rather than
% numeric quantities.
%
% Consider the simple case of a rotation matrix
syms a
rotx(a)
% Or a more complex example for Euler angles
syms a b c
eul2r(a, b, c)
% Now let's consider a robot link with symbolic parameters
syms q A D alpha
L = Link('d', D, 'a', A, 'alpha', a, 'revolute');
% the link transform matrix for a joint angle q is then
L.A(q)
% Consider now a simple two-link robot, we load the model
mdl_twolink
% which has created a robot model in the workspace
twolink
% Now this is a numeric robot model, and we need to create a symbolic model
twolink_sym = twolink.sym()
% which appears very similar, however all the constants are now symbolic rather
% than numeric.
% Next define the two joint angles as symbolic variables
syms q1 q2
% and then the forward kinematics is
twolink_sym.fkine([q1, q2])