Zugel, John Martin2014-03-142014-03-141985-08-05etd-09082012-040441http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44674The purpose of this study is to implement the advantages of the relatively new field of expert systems to robot kinematics. The research presented in this thesis illustrates the progress in combining the two fields. An expert system used to solve the kinematic equations of general purpose robots is presented along with some examples.ix, 236 leavesBTDapplication/pdfIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1985.Z833Expert systems (Computer science)Prolog (Computer program language)RoboticsThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09082012-040441/