Design and control of a spherical mobile robot

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering

Volumn 217, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 457-467

  Alves, J ^a   Dias, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Control modules; Digital hardware; Remotely controlled; Spherical mobile robot; VHDL

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; REMOTE CONTROL;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DIGITAL HARDWARE; ROTATION MATRICES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0345868498     PISSN: 09596518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095965103322747061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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