Thank you all for your thoughts about the movement modes. Translating 
forces exact definitions. As Viesturs said, it is a  good thing to 
explain these modes from time to time.

Right, "Gelenk" would be my fist choice to translate "joint", but it 
describes only the   p o i n t   where movement takes place, e.g., the 
ellbow or knee itself, not the arm or leg or even their ends (where the 
desired movement takes place), which is meant by LinuxCNC. I would not 
be glad with this expression, but still may have to stick with it - not 
too bad since "joint" in English also actually means a point where two 
pieces are "joined", not the extensions thereof.

Gelenk is related to the verb "lenken" which means "to steer", and this 
comes close to what is happening in CNC.

I will have to ponder about this before I dare setting standards in 
LinuxCNC.

Peter



Andy Pugh schrieb:
> On 10 Apr 2012, at 11:18, Peter Blodow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't know what the English sentence means, it's hard to 
>> interpret (e.g., 'Coordinated mode' or 'Teleop mode'). In some cases, 
>> there may not even be a German word  for lack of exact definition (what 
>> exactly is a joint?
>>     
>
> Luckily I have a handy German engineer in the hotel room with me. 
> Joint = Gelink  but is used in the LinuxCNC context to describe any 
> mechanical part which adds one or more degrees of freedom. So it is typically 
> a machine slide, but can be a rotary bearing or anything else controlled by 
> an actuator. 
>
> I suspect very few people understand the difference between coordinated mode 
> (N-Bahnsteuerung) where multiple joints move at the same time to make the 
> tool move in XYZ space under operator control and "Teleop" mode 
> (1-Bahnsteuerung) where the operator controls a single selected joint at any 
> one time. I _think_ "Teleop" and "Joint mode" mean the same thing. 
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