Configurations of Robot’s Manipulators and Their Identification, and the Execution of Prescribed Trajectories. Part 2: Investigations of Manipulators Having Five, Seven, and Eight Degrees of Freedom

The methods discussed in Part 1 of this paper are applied for the determination of all potential configurations of manipulator links and the execution of prescribed trajectories. The research is performed for manipulators having five, seven, and eight degrees of freedom.