ROBUST POSTURE CONTROL OF A MOBILEWHEELED PENDULUM MOVING ON AN INCLINED PLANE

Danielle Sami Nasrallah, Hannah Michalska, Jorge Angeles

2006

Abstract

The paper considers a specific class of wheeled mobile robots referred to as mobile wheeled pendulums (MWP). Robots pertaining to this class are composed of two wheels rotating about a central body. The main feature of the MWP pertains to the central body, which can rotate about the wheel axes. As such motion is undesirable, the problem of the stabilization of the central body in MWP is crucial. The novelty of the work presented here resides in the construction of a three-imbricated loop controller that delivers the full control strategy for the robot posture and copes with parameters uncertainties. Simulations on the performance of the controlled system are provided.

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in Harvard Style

Sami Nasrallah D., Michalska H. and Angeles J. (2006). ROBUST POSTURE CONTROL OF A MOBILEWHEELED PENDULUM MOVING ON AN INCLINED PLANE . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-60-3, pages 34-41. DOI: 10.5220/0001213100340041


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco06,
author={Danielle Sami Nasrallah and Hannah Michalska and Jorge Angeles},
title={ROBUST POSTURE CONTROL OF A MOBILEWHEELED PENDULUM MOVING ON AN INCLINED PLANE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2006},
pages={34-41},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001213100340041},
isbn={978-972-8865-60-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - ROBUST POSTURE CONTROL OF A MOBILEWHEELED PENDULUM MOVING ON AN INCLINED PLANE
SN - 978-972-8865-60-3
AU - Sami Nasrallah D.
AU - Michalska H.
AU - Angeles J.
PY - 2006
SP - 34
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0001213100340041