Simplified motion control of a two-axle compliant framed wheeled mobile robot

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 491-506

  Minor, Mark A ^a   Albiston, Brian W ^a,b   Schwensen, Corey L ^a,c  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b Sagetech Corporation   (United States)

^c ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant; Kinematics; Mobile robot; Motion control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING;

KINEMATIC MODELS; MOTION CONTROL ALGORITHMS; NONHOLONOMIC KINEMATICS; TWO-AXLE COMPLIANT FRAMED; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745175846     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.875503     Document Type: Article

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