Control strategy for a mobile self-balancing materials handling platform

Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-27

  Butler, Louwrens J ^a   Bright, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Advanced manufacturing technologies; Control systems; Materials handling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIFFERENTIAL DRIVE; DYNAMIC STABILITY; INTERFACE SOFTWARE; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; INVERTED PENDULUM; LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR; LOW LEVEL CONTROL; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING; MOBILE PLATFORM; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; NONHOLONOMICS; NONLINEAR STATE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; REMOTE CLIENTS; SELF-BALANCING; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LEVEL CONTROL; LEVELING (MACHINERY); MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; OPEN SYSTEMS; PENDULUMS; PLANT LAYOUT; ROBUST CONTROL; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 78651578631     PISSN: 17260531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17260531011034628     Document Type: Article

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