Kinematics of wheeled mobile robots with toroidal wheels on uneven terrain

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2003, Pages 1331-1341

  Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a   Ghosal, Ashitava ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Slip free motion; Uneven terrain; Wheeled vehicle kinematics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS; WHEELS;

SLIP-FREE MOTION; UNEVEN TERRAIN; WHEELED VEHICLE KINEMATICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1842761523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dac-48846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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