A new family of omnidirectional and holonomic wheeled platforms for mobile robots

A new family of omnidirectional and holonomic wheeled platforms for mobile robots

This paper presents the concepts for a new family of holonomic wheeled platforms that feature full omnidirectionality with simultaneous and independently controlled rotational and translational motion capabilities. We first present the “orthogonal-wheels” concept and the two major wheel assemblies on which these platforms are based. We then describe how a combination of these assemblies with ap...

Hybrid Formation Control for Non-Holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots

This paper presents a hybrid formation controller approach for nonholonomic mobile robots. This approach is based on the stable switching between a leader-following formation controller and an orientation controller. The switching attempts to maintain low values of formation errors during specific leader movements that otherwise will produce a significant increment on such errors. Experimental ...

Fuzzy Motion Control for Wheeled Mobile Robots in Real-Time

Due to various advantages of Wheeled Mobile Robots (WMRs), many researchers have focused to solve their challenges. The automatic motion control of such robots is an attractive problem and is one of the issues which should carefully be examined. In the current paper, the trajectory tracking problem of WMRs which are actuated by two independent electrical motors is deliberated. To this end, and ...

A Kinematically Compatible Framework for Collaboration of Multiple Non- holonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots

Omnidirectional sensors for mobile robots

CONTACT Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Inform. Hartmut Surmann Schloss Birlinghoven, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Tel 02241/142518 Fax 02241/144-2518 email: [email protected] REFERENCES [1] Surmann, H.: The VolksBot, http://www.VolksBot.de, Oct. 2008 [2] Murphy, R.: Trial by fire [rescue robots]. Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE 11 (3) (Sept. 2004) 50–61 [3] Durrant-Whyte, H., Bailey, T.: Simulta...