A New Family of Omnidirectional and Holonomic Wheeled Platforms for Mobile Robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 480-489

  Pin, Francois G ^a   Killough, Stephen M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; FRICTION; MOTION CONTROL; ROTATION; STEERING; VEHICLE WHEELS;

HOLONOMIC WHEELED PLATFORMS; OMNIDIRECTIONALITY; ORTHOGONAL WHEELS; TRANSLATIONAL MOTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0028486091     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.313098     Document Type: Article

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