Multimodal dynamic robotic systems

TR Bewley, BA Sams, PT Chen - US Patent 9,020,639, 2015 - Google Patents
Robotic systems according to the invention include a frame or body with two or more wheels
rotatably mounted on the frame or body and a motor for independently driving each wheel. A …

Development and control of a single-wheel robot: Practical Mechatronics approach

JH Park, S Jung - Mechatronics, 2013 - Elsevier
This article presents a Mechatronics approach to make the complex dynamical system
satisfy the specification as desired. The Mechatronics approach has several phases …

Wheeled robots

W Chung, K Iagnemma - Springer handbook of robotics, 2016 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce, analyze, and compare various wheeled mobile
robots (WMR s) and to present several realizations and commonly encountered designs …

Analysis of actuation and dynamic balancing for a single-wheel robot

Y Xu, KW Au, GC Nandy… - Proceedings. 1998 IEEE …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a dynamic model of the steering and actuation mechanism of Gyrover, a single-
wheel robot which can be considered as a single wheel, actuated through a spinning …

Dynamic modeling of a one-wheel robot by using Kane's method

W Nukulwuthiopas, S Laowattana… - … , 2002. IEEE ICIT'02., 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, dynamic modeling of a one-wheel robot, which is subjected to nonholonomic
constraints, was derived by using Kane's method. By imposing the constraints in the …

Decoupled dynamics and stabilization of single wheel robot

KW Au, Y Xu - … 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gyrover is a single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot. It is a single wheel connected to a
spinning flywheel through a two-link manipulator at the wheel bearing. The nature of the …

Control of the Gyrover. A single-wheel gyroscopically stabilized robot

SJ Tsai, ED Ferreira, CJJ Paredis - Proceedings 1999 IEEE …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Gyrover is a single wheel gyroscopically stabilized mobile robot developed at Carnegie
Mellon University. An internal pendulum serves as a counter weight for a drive motor that …

Control of the Gyrover: a single-wheel gyroscopically stabilized robot

ED Ferreira, SJ Tsai, CJJ Paredis, HB Brown - Advanced Robotics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The Gyrover is a single-wheel gyroscopically stabilized mobile robot developed at Carnegie
Mellon University. An internal pendulum serves as a counter weight for a drive motor that …

Ball-balancing robot and drive assembly therefor

TR Bewley, JM Friesen, E Sihite, D Yang - US Patent 10,189,342, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A ball-balancing drive assembly includes a ball having a ball surface and a
reference axis extending through a centroid of the ball. Three omniwheel assemblies, each …

Equations of motion of a single-wheel robot in a rough terrain

A Alasty, H Pendar - … of the 2005 IEEE International Conference …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, dynamic equations of a single wheel robot, known as Gyrover, through
Lagrange method applying a new approach will be addressed. There is no simplification on …