Automatic guided vehicles with omnidirectional wheels have three degrees of freedom (DOF), their full mobility being obtained by virtue of the free rollers around the periphery of...
— Mobile platforms equipped with several steering wheels are known to be omnidirectional, i.e., able to independently translate and rotate on the plane. As an improvement to this...
Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Matthias Fuchs, Alin Albu-...
International Journal of Robotics Research, v 19, n 11, p. 1066-1074 Mobile manipulator systems hold promise in many industrial and service applications including assembly, inspec...
— For mobile platforms with steerable standard wheels it is necessary to precisely coordinate rotation and steering angle of their wheels. An established approach to ensure this ...
Christian Pascal Connette, Christopher Parlitz, Ma...
— An omni-directional moving platform with four wheels is developed and its controller is designed for tracking desired trajectories. The four wheels of the platform are torque c...