Mechanical Understanding Linkages*
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transform motion . In this paper we investigate what it means for a program to "understand" a linkage. Our system extracts its understanding by analyzing the results of a numerical simulation of the mechanism, finding interesting qualitative features, looking for symbolic relationships between these features and conjecturing a causal relationship between them . Our system is capable of understanding a variety of mechanisms, producing explanations very much like those in standard texts.
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