What does forward kinematics mean?

Working out how a robot moves from the commands sent to it: command to velocity in the body frame, rotated into the world frame, then added up over time to give position.

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Forward kinematics answers: given the commands, where does the robot end up? It is the model of the machine, and it runs in three stages.

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