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degrees of freedom

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degrees of freedom

The amount of movement available in a robotics or virtual reality system. See 6DOF.

(robotics)degrees of freedom - The number of independent parameters required to specify the position and orientation of an object. Often used to classify robot arms. For example, an arm with six degrees of freedom could reach any position close enough and could orient it's end effector (grip or tool etc.) at any angle about the three perpendicular axes.


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To test whether the polynomial form is superior to the original form of the variable, a chi-squared test is constructed by using the difference in two models' chi-squared value (or the difference in two times the log likelihood of the two models), with the number of degrees of freedom determined by the number of additional variables added to the polynmnial model.
Testing the dose-response specification in epidemiology: public ... by Rothenberg, Jesse C. / Environmental Health Perspectives
The degrees of freedom with which the arms of the EndoWrist instruments operate include pitch, yaw, and roll plus two additional degrees of freedom in the wrist and two others for tool actuation--a total of seven degrees of freedom in all.
Potential applications of the da Vinci minimally invasive surgical ... by Melder, Patrick C. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
16) Recent studies, (17,18) however, have challenged Bernstein's original hypotheses, suggesting that it is the task that dictates whether the degrees of freedom increase or decrease in the initial stage of skill acquisition.
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