cylindrical-coordinate robot

cylindrical-coordinate robot

[sə′lin·drə·kəl kō¦ōrd·ən·ət ′rō‚bät]

(control systems)

A robot in which the degrees of freedom of the manipulator arm are defined chiefly by cylindrical coordinates.

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