Omnidirectional mobile robots, mechanisms and navigation approaches

H Taheri, CX Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

A dynamically stable single-wheeled mobile robot with inverse mouse-ball drive

TB Lauwers, GA Kantor… - Proceedings 2006 IEEE …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-wheel statically-stable mobile robots tall enough to interact meaningfully with people
must have low centers of gravity, wide bases of support, and low accelerations to avoid …

The ballbot: An omnidirectional balancing mobile robot

U Nagarajan, G Kantor, R Hollis - The International Journal …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The ballbot is a human-sized dynamically stable mobile robot that balances on a single ball.
Unlike statically stable mobile robots, the ballbot is tall and narrow with a high center of …

Neural-adaptive output feedback control of a class of transportation vehicles based on wheeled inverted pendulum models

Z Li, C Yang - IEEE transactions on control systems technology, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) models have been widely applied in the
transportation vehicles formed by a mobile wheeled inverted pendulum system with an …

State transition, balancing, station keeping, and yaw control for a dynamically stable single spherical wheel mobile robot

U Nagarajan, A Mampetta, GA Kantor… - … on Robotics and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unlike statically stable wheeled mobile robots, dynamically stable mobile robots can have
higher centers of gravity, smaller bases of support and can be tall and thin resembling the …

An automatic self-tuning control system design for an inverted pendulum

M Waszak, R Łangowski - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A control problem of an inverted pendulum in the presence of parametric uncertainty has
been investigated in this paper. In particular, synthesis and implementation of an automatic …

One is enough!

T Lauwers, G Kantor, R Hollis - Robotics Research: Results of the 12th …, 2007 - Springer
We postulate that multi-wheel statically-stable mobile robots for operation in human
environments are an evolutionary dead end. Robots of this class tall enough to interact …

Standing mobility device with passive lower limb exoskeleton for upright locomotion

Y Eguchi, H Kadone, K Suzuki - IEEE/ASME Transactions On …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a novel standing mobility device aimed at supporting and assisting
people with disabled lower limbs. The developed mobility device is capable of assisting …

Development of a Segway robot for an intelligent transport system

LJ Pinto, DH Kim, JY Lee… - 2012 IEEE/SICE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for an intelligent transport system has been heightened in the present day, by the
ever-growing demand to combine ease of transport with maximum efficacy. The Segway …

Balancing a wheeled inverted pendulum with a single accelerometer in the presence of time delay

Q Xu, G Stepan, Z Wang - Journal of Vibration and Control, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The output of an accelerometer often has coupled components of displacement and
acceleration, and is rarely used individually for balancing tasks. In order to balance a …