Locomotion systems for ground mobile robots in unstructured environments

L Bruzzone, G Quaglia - Mechanical sciences, 2012 - ms.copernicus.org
The world market of mobile robotics is expected to increase substantially in the next 20 yr,
surpassing the market of industrial robotics in terms of units and sales. Important fields of …

A case study of mobile robot's energy consumption and conservation techniques

Y Mei, YH Lu, YC Hu, CSG Lee - ICAR'05. Proceedings., 12th …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots are used in many applications, such as carpet cleaning, pickup and delivery,
search and rescue, and entertainment. Energy limitation is one of the most important …

Deployment of mobile robots with energy and timing constraints

Y Mei, YH Lu, YC Hu, CSG Lee - IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots can be used in many applications, such as carpet cleaning, search and
rescue, and exploration. Many studies have been devoted to the control, sensing, and …

Design and field testing of a rover with an actively articulated suspension system in a Mars analog terrain

F Cordes, F Kirchner, A Babu - Journal of Field Robotics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the electromechanical design, the control approach, and the results of a
field test campaign with the hybrid wheeled‐leg rover SherpaTT. The rover ranges in the …

[图书][B] Symbiotic multi-robot organisms: reliability, adaptability, evolution

P Levi, S Kernbach - 2010 - books.google.com
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V. > |- E. Ü © U- ~ Organisms Reliability, Adaptability, Evolution © Springer Page 2 Cognitive …

Power consumption modeling of skid-steer tracked mobile robots on rigid terrain

J Morales, JL Martinez, A Mandow… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power consumption is a key element in outdoor mobile robot autonomy. This issue is very
relevant in skid-steer tracked vehicles on account of their large ground contact area. In this …

Design and kinematic modeling of a passively-actively transformable mobile robot

H Jiang, G Xu, W Zeng, F Gao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel passively-actively transformable mobile robot that can traverse an unstructured
terrain is proposed. The robot's locomotion system can actively adjust its posture in …

Renewable Energy for Robots and Robots for Renewable Energy–A Review

AA Hassan, M El Habrouk, S Deghedie - Robotica, 2020 - cambridge.org
Fossil fuel sources are well suited to fulfill the energy needs of human beings. Unfortunately,
there are some limitations and disadvantages pertaining to fossil fuels, some of which are …

Power-minimization and energy-reduction autonomous navigation of an omnidirectional Mecanum robot via the dynamic window approach local trajectory planning

L Xie, C Henkel, K Stol, W Xu - International Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
To improve the energy efficiency of the Mecanum wheel, this article extends the dynamic
window approach by adding a new energy-related criterion for minimizing the power …

Performance comparison of rough‐terrain robots—simulation and hardware

T Thueer, A Krebs, R Siegwart… - Journal of Field …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The design of a rover for a specific environment is a complex procedure which requires
modeling a chassis and evaluating it with specific criteria. This is the aim of the performance …