What does inverse kinematics mean?

Working out which commands produce a wanted motion: rotate the wanted world velocity into the body frame using the heading, then scale each axis by its full speed to get the drive commands.

In a lesson

Forward kinematics is the model. Inverse kinematics is the useful one: I want to move like this; what do I send?

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