OMNI-DIRECTIONAL MOBILITY USING ACTIVE SPLIT OFFSET CASTORS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 7B, Issue , 2000, Pages 1421-1427

  Yu, Haoyong ^a   Dubowsky, Steven ^a   Skwersky, Adam ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND CONTROL; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; PLATFORM DESIGN; VEHICLE DESIGN;

WHEELS;

EID: 27844515686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/MECH-14210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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