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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf17106</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2006.124</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Velocity Distribution Profile for Robot Arm Motion Using Rational Frenet–Serret Curves</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Ravani</surname><given-names>Reza</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:rezaravani@hotmail.com">rezaravani@hotmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Meghdari</surname><given-names>Ali</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:meghdari@sharif.edu">meghdari@sharif.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Computer Engineering, Science &amp; Research Campus, Azad University, Tehran, Iran</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2006</year></pub-date><volume>17</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>69</fpage><lpage>84</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>12</month><year>2004</year></date></history><abstract><p>The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the techniques of Computer Aided Geometric Design such as spatial rational curves and surfaces could be applied to Kinematics, Computer Animation and Robotics. For this purpose we represent a method which utilizes a special class of rational curves called Rational Frenet–Serret (RF) curves for robot trajectory planning. RF curves distinguished by the property that the motion of their Frenet–Serret frame is rational. We describe an algorithm for interpolation of positions by a rational Frenet–Serret motion. Further more we present an algorithm for tracking the constructed RF motion to achieve the desired velocity distribution profile of robot arm.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>spatial curves</kwd><kwd>rational Frenet–Serret curves</kwd><kwd>velocity profile</kwd><kwd>Frenet–Serret frames</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>