This paper studies distributed rendezvous strategies for multiple nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots with the aim of testing their practicality on real robots. We investigate control strategies which use just bearing-only or range-only measurements and do not need inter-robot radio communication to share the measurements. For the bearing-only case, two control laws proposed in our previous stud...

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 ...

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...

This letter studies jumping for wheeled-bipedal robots, a motion that takes full advantage of the benefits from hybrid wheeled and legged design features. A comprehensive hierarchical scheme planning control with robots is developed. Underactuation dynamics main difficulty to be addressed, especially in problem. To tackle this issue, novel wheeled-spring-loaded inverted pendulum (W-SLIP) model ...

We present a two-layer architecture for two-wheeled robots trajectory planning. This architecture can be used to describe steering behaviours and to generate candidate trajectories that will be evaluated by a higher-level layer before choosing which one will be followed. The higher layer uses a TÆMS tree to describe the current robot goal and its decomposition into alternative steering behaviou...

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...

Most dynamic systems show uncertainty in their behavior. Therefore, a deterministic model is not sufficient to predict the stochastic behavior of such systems. Alternatively, a stochastic model can be used for better analysis and simulation. By numerically integrating the stochastic differential equation or solving the Fokker-Planck equation, we can obtain a probability density function of the ...