Advanced Mechanisms

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Big idea

Bottango provides a few tools to create more advanced mechanisms than the forward kinematics relationship of joints and motors.

In this section, we’ll cover ways to create more advanced mechanisms:

• Target poses are a robust and popular feature that allow you to create key poses for your robot, and then blend between them.

• Inverse kinematics functionality is available in a limited form, though more development is planned to improve the feature. IK lets you set the desired position of the end of a kinematic chain, and then have the position of the parent joints calculated for you.

• Dynamic constraints allow you to create more complex relationships between motors and joints.