On 8/11/2013 3:52 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2013/8/11 Gisela Thieme <[email protected]> > >> Hello, >> >> Let me contribute the coding of an algorithm that allows the volumetric >> compensation of parallel kinematics. >> It is written in MATLAB for the moment. >> >> >> I think that this easy way of calibration can be added to the project. As >> far as I know, it is not implemented in >> >> other CNC Controllers, SIEMENS for example, so it will overtrump >> commercial controller solutions. >> >> >> >> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42963-parallel-kinematics-calibration-without-parameter-identification/ > > You wrote that it is based on a patent. I found that it was filed last > year, so it most definitely is long time, before it will expire. > Since LinuxCNC is used also on industrial machines for commercial purposes, > implementing your contribution will be a patent infringement: > http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2013014056&recNum=14&docAn=EP2012064162&queryString=FP:(robot)&maxRec=36752 > It is a patent infringement (at least in the US) even if it is for non-commercial use. The odds are just better that you won't get caught and no one will care.
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