State transition, balancing, station keeping, and yaw control for a dynamically stable single spherical wheel mobile robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 998-1003

  Nagarajan, Umashankar ^a   Mampetta, Anish ^a   Kantor, George A ^a   Hollis, Ralph L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; WHEELS;

DYNAMIC BALANCING; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; STABLE STATE; STATE TRANSITIONS; STATION KEEPING; VERTICAL AXIS; WHEEL MOBILE ROBOT; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT;

BALANCING;

EID: 85061682318     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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