Backward-motion control of a mobile robot with n passive off-hooked trailers

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2895-2905

  Chung, Woojin ^a   Park, Myoungkuk ^b   Yoo, Kwanghyun ^a   Roh, Jae Il ^a   Choi, Jongsuk ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Texas Agrilife Research Mariculture Laboratory   (United States)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Backward motion control; Passive trailer; Reconfigurable robot; Trajectory tracking; Under actuated system

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CONTROL INPUTS; CONTROL SCHEMES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; IF THERE ARE; KINEMATIC DESIGNS; KINEMATIC MODEL; MODELING ERRORS; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SERVICE; PASSIVE TRAILER; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS; TRAILER SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORY TRACKING; UNDER-ACTUATED SYSTEMS;

KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; TRUCK TRAILERS; VEHICLES;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 81455147398     PISSN: 1738494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12206-011-0909-7     Document Type: Article

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