The research on two-wheeled inverted pendulum (T-WIP) mobile robots or commonly known as balancing robots have gained momentum over the last decade in a number of robotic laboratories around the world (Solerno & Angeles, 2003;Grasser et al., 2002; Solerno & Angeles, 2007;Koyanagi, Lida & Yuta, 1992;Ha & Yuta, 1996; Kim, Kim & Kwak, 2003). This chapter describes the hardware design of such a rob...

This research presents a nonlinear adaptive fuzzy control method as an analytical design and simple structure for the trajectory tracking problem in wheeled mobile robots with skew symmetrical property. For this robots, it is not easy to find solution due complicated error dynamics between controlled desired trajectories. deriving law of problem, filter link firstly adopted solvable dynamics, t...

Non-systematic errors in wheeled mobile robots are significantly influenced by irregularities on the surface. The presence of non-smoothness on a surface causes the robot to deviate from its desired trajectory, and move towards an undesirable destination. This paper uses a technique, previously proposed by the first author, to alleviate the positional error originating from non-systematic resou...

We present a control framework for achieving encirclement of a target moving in 3D using a multi-robot system. Three variations of a basic control strategy are proposed for different versions of the encirclement problem, and their effectiveness is formally established. An extension ensuring maintenance of a safe inter-robot distance is also discussed. The proposed framework is fully decentraliz...

Typical formulations of the forward and inverse velocity kinematics of wheeled mobile robots assume flat terrain, consistent constraints, and no slip at the wheels. Such assumptions can sometimes permit the wheel constraints to be substituted into the differential equation to produce a compact, apparently unconstrained result. However, in the general case, the terrain is not flat, the wheel con...

This special issue focuses on the following topic areas: i Biomimetics and locomotion, ii mobile vehicles, iii human-robot systems and haptic interfaces, and iv novel systems modeling and analysis. We believe that this special issue provides a compilation of the most recent developments in the field of robotics and will be an important source of information for current and future researchers. B...

We consider a heterogeneous swarm consisting of aerial and wheeled robots. We present a system that enables spatially targeted communication. Our system enables aerial robots to establish dedicated communication links with individual wheeled robots or with selected groups of wheeled robots based on their position in the environment. The system does not rely on any form of global information. We...

Mobile manipulators are extensively used in various applications. Most of the mobile built on a wheeled platform. A platform performs well flat terrains but is not suitable for navigation rough terrains. The legged robots commonly terrain However, speed lesser than robots. This paper focuses development hybrid wheellegged to overcome above difficulties. proposed model quadruped with five degree...

This paper explores and compares the nature of the non-linear filtering techniques on mobile robot pose estimation. Three non-linear filters are implemented including the extended Kalman filter (EKF), the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and the particle filter (PF). The criteria of comparison is the magnitude of the error of pose estimation, the computational time, and the robustness of each filt...

The control of planetary rovers, which are high performance mobile robots that move on deformable rough terrain, is a challenging problem. Taking lateral skid into account, this paper presents a rough terrain model and nonholonomic kinematics model for planetary rovers. An approach is proposed in which the reference path is generated according to the planned path by combining look-ahead distanc...