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In this paper, six methods for the formulation of the robot kinematic equations with serial links are presented. Two different spaces are used in kinematic modeling of robots namely Cartesian space and Quaternion space. Five kinematic methods in Cartesian space and one kinematic method in Quaternion space are described and they are compared to each other. Some of these methods are useable for forward kinematic solutions while some others are for inverse kinematic solutions. Kinematic analysis in Quaternion space does not include redundant elements while Cartesian space analysis does. Therefore, the kinematic models defined in Quaternion space run faster than those defined in Cartesian space in computer environment