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 …

In the last decades, mobile robotics has become a very interesting research topic in the field
of robotics, mainly because of population ageing and the recent pandemic emergency …

Describes a prototype and analytical studies of a spherical rolling robot, a new design of a
nonholonomic robot system. The spherical robot is driven by two remotely controlled …

Designing a mobile robotic toy is challenging work. The robot must be appealing to children
and create interesting interactions while facing the wide variety of situations that can be …

This paper describes a prototype and analytical studies of a spherical rolling robot, a new
design of an omnidirectional robot system. The robot can arbitrarily begin to move in any …

Population aging and pandemics have been shown to cause the isolation of elderly people
in their houses, generating the need for a reliable assistive figure. Robotic assistants are the …

This article proposes a modification of hybrid A* method used for navigation of spherical
mobile robots with the ability of limited partial lateral movement driven by pendulum. For …

The two-phase flow and boiling heat transfer in horizontal metal-foam filled tubes are
experimentally investigated. The results show that the heat transfer is almost doubled by …

This paper describes a prototype and analytical studies of a spherical rolling robot, a new
design of a nonholonomic system. The spherical robot is driven by two remotely controlled …

An omni-directional mobility platform design concept using two active split offset castors
(ASOC) and one or more conventional castors is presented. An ASOC module consists of …