A new family of two-wheeled mobile robots: Modeling and controllability

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-173

  Salerno, Alessio ^a,b   Angeles, Jorge ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Controllability; Multibody system dynamics; Nonholonomic (NH) robots; Wheeled mobile robots (WMRs)

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS;

MULTIBODY SYSTEM DYNAMICS; NONHOLONOMIC ROBOTS; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33947363723     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.886277     Document Type: Article

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