A GA-based fuzzy controller design method is proposed for a two-wheeled mobile robot to independently control two velocities of its left-wheeled motor and right-wheeled motor so that the controlled robot can move fast and efficiently to the desired position. First, the kinematics model of the considered two-wheeled robot is described and a 4-input-and-2-output motion fuzzy control structure wit...

Applications of wheeled mobile robots have recently extended to service robots for the handicapped or the aged and industrial mobile robots working in various environments. The most popular wheeled mobile robots are equipped with two independent driving wheels. Since these robots possess 2 degrees-of-freedom (DOFs), they can rotate about any point, but cannot perform holonomic motion including ...

Kinematics and the dynamics analysis of a two-wheeled mobile robot comprising an oscillating intermediate central body are established in the paper. The dynamics of this mechanical system is formulated using the fundamental principle of virtual work, but it has been verified the results in the framework of the Lagrange formalism with their multipliers. The study of the dynamics problems of the ...

This paper proposed a model algorithm control (MAC) method for trajectory tracking control of the differentially steered wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) subject to nonholonomic constraint. The dynamic model of the wheeled mobile robot is presented and used as the model to be controlled. The performance of the proposed control algorithm is verified via computer simulations in which the WMR is contr...

The autonomous wheeled mobile robots are very interesting subject both in scientific research and practical applications. The article deals with the fuzzy control of autonomous wheeled mobile robotic platform motion in an unstructured environment with obstacles. The simulation results show the effectiveness and the validity of the obstacle avoidance behaviour in unstructured environments and th...

A Posture Control for Two Wheeled Mobile Robots Hyun-Sik Shim and Yoon-Gyeoung Sung Abstract: In this paper, a posture control for nonholonomic mobile robots is proposed with an empirical basis. In order to obtain fast and consecutive motions in realistic applications, the motion requirements of a mobile robot are de ned. Under the assumption of a velocity controller designed with the selection...

Dynamics and control of mobile manipulators is obviously a more challenging problem compared to fixed-base robots. Including a suspension system for these mobile platforms increases their maneuverability, but considerably adds to their complexity. In this paper, a suspended wheeled mobile platform with two 6-DOF Puma-type manipulators is used to manipulate an object along a given path. To apply...

The research on two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) mobile robots or commonly known as balancing robots have gained momentum over the last decade in a number of robotic laboratories around the world. This paper describes the hardware design of such a robot. The objective of the design is to develop a TWIP mobile robot as well as MATLAB interfacing configuration to be used as flexible platform ...