Stabilization and path following of a single wheel robot

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 407-419

  Xu, Yangsheng ^a   Au, Samuel Kwok Wai ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FLYWHEELS; GYROSCOPES; KINETIC ENERGY; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; STATE FEEDBACK; SYSTEM STABILITY;

GYROSCOPICAL STABILIZATION; NONHOLONOMIC SYSTEM; ROBOT MOTION; STEERING VELOCITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3342985018     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2004.828642     Document Type: Article

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