Singularity avoidance for over-actuated, pseudo-omnidirectional, wheeled mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4124-4130

  Connette, Christian P ^a   Parlitz, Christopher ^a   Hägele, Martin ^a   Verl, Alexander ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MOBILE PLATFORM; NON HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINT; SINGULAR CONFIGURATIONS; SINGULARITY AVOIDANCE; STEERING ANGLES; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 70350379432     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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