QuoteVDX ... this is not so far away from my own wire-feeding system, I've designed after a port crane in 1995 Yes there's definitely some similarities. The biggest difference seems to be motor placement. Do you know what this would be classified as kinematically? Is it some sort of Cartesian variant since x and y each have their own independent motor?by eebogaine - Mechanics
Is anyone able to identify the kinematics system used in this patent? I can't find any previous discussion on this topic, and the few references I've found say that Stratasys uses h-bot. However it's clear from the drawings that this isn't a simple h-bot configuration. In fact it's not even symmetrical. Is this some kind of modified h-bot to solve the racking problem? Here's the link to the patby eebogaine - Mechanics