Pose estimation is one of the vital issues in mobile robot navigation. Odometry data can be fused with absolute position measurements to provide better and more reliable pose estimation. This paper deals with the determination of better relative localization of a two wheeled differential drive robot by means of odometry by considering the influence of parameters namely weight, velocity, wheel p...

Designing the self-balancing two-wheeled mobile robots and reducing undesired vibrations are of great importance. For this purpose, the majority of researches are focused on application of relatively complex control approaches without improving the robot structure. Therefore, in this paper we introduce a new two-wheeled mobile robot which, despite its relative simple structure, fulfills the req...

The purpose of the senior design project, from the course description of objectives is "To provide students a complete design experience, including the necessity to set design goals and objectives, integrate knowledge, exercise engineering judgment, plan to meet a budget and schedule, to work as a team member, and to communicate in writing." To accomplish these objectives our group, Helping Han...

a general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. the robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. the curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. to study the adapt...

quadruped robots have unique capabilities for motion over uneven natural environments. this article presents a stable gait for a quadruped robot in such motions and discusses the inverse-dynamics control scheme to follow the planned gait. first, an explicit dynamics model will be developed using a novel constraint elimination method for an 18-dof quadruped robot. thereafter, an inverse-dynamics...