The paper presents a program for robotics education that runs on standard IBM-PCs under the Microsoft Windows environment. The WinRob package is designed for undergraduate students and emphasises the fundamental aspects of robot modelling and control. The software is self-explanatory and uses menus, dialog boxes and context-dependent on-line help.
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