A single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 39-44

  Brown, H Benjamin ^a   Xu, Yangsheng ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Gyroscopic stabilization; Mobile robot

Indexed keywords

GYROSCOPES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

GYROSCOPIC STABILIZATION; SINGLE WHEEL ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031234755     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/100.618022     Document Type: Article

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