Week 2- 2R Robotic Arm Challenge

https://youtu.be/qQpxREXruoQ

% A program in Matlab to simulate the forward kinematics of a 2R Robotic Arm

clear all
close all
clc

%Input
l1= 1;
l2= 0.7;
theta1= linspace(0,100,7);
theta2= linspace(0,100,7);
ct= 1;

for i= 1:length(theta1)
   THETA1 =theta1(i);
    for j= 1:length(theta2)
    THETA2= theta2(j);

    x0= 0;
    y0= 0;

    x1= l1*cosd(THETA1);
    y1= l1*sind(THETA1);

    x2= x1+l2*cosd(THETA2);
    y2= y1+l2*sind(THETA2);
    
    %plotting

    plot([x0 x1],[y0 y1],[x1 x2],[y1 y2],'linewidth',3)
    axis([-0.1 1.5 0 1.5])
    pause (0.02)
    M(ct)= getframe(gcf);
    ct= ct+1;
    end
end

movie(M)
videofile= VideoWriter('forward_kinematics.avi','uncompressed AVI');

open(videofile)
writeVideo(videofile,M)
close(videofile)