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>stef@joker.mil.ufl.edu writes:

>>In our lab we have an IBM 7565 hydraulic-actuated gantry robot.
>>(query about alternative controller to original Series I).

     IBM gave out quite a number of those machines.  There is one at
Stanford, there were two at MIT at one time, one at Florida, and a few
others.  I've used the one at Stanford, but it is semi-retired now.
Someone in Mark Cutkosky's lab has been building a new controller for the
wrist.  (The big motions are too powerful for experimental controller
development, especially since the Series I provided all the limit stops
in software.)

     For research work, I'd recommend getting a small, modern robot arm
rather than putting a new controller on this large, hydraulic antique.
I spent most of a summer overhauling and interfacing one, and it works
well if properly maintained, but it isn't worth the effort.

     Contact Prof. Mark Cutkosky, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.