scholarly journals Modelling of Dynamics of a Wheeled Mobile Robot with Mecanum Wheels with the use of Lagrange Equations of the Second Kind

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Hendzel ◽  
Ł. Rykała

Abstract The work presents the dynamic equations of motion of a wheeled mobile robot with mecanum wheels derived with the use of Lagrange equations of the second kind. Mecanum wheels are a new type of wheels used in wheeled mobile robots and they consist of freely rotating rollers attached to the circumference of the wheels. In order to derive dynamic equations of motion of a wheeled mobile robot, the kinetic energy of the system is determined, as well as the generalised forces affecting the system. The resulting mathematical model of a wheeled mobile robot was generated with the use of Maple V software. The results of a solution of inverse and forward problems of dynamics of the discussed object are also published.

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Juhairi Aziz Safar

Holonomic and omnidirectional locomotion systems are best known for their capability to maneuver at any arbitrary direction regardless of their current position and orientation with a three degrees of freedom mobility. This paper summarizes the advancement of holonomic and omnidirectional locomotion systems for wheeled mobile robot applications and discuss the issues and challenges for future improvement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Guang Tong ◽  
Xin Xing

In this paper, a new robust trajectory tracking control scheme for wheeled mobile robots without velocity measurement is proposed. In the proposed controller, the velocity observer is used to estimate the velocity of wheeled mobile robot. The dynamics of wheeled mobile robot is considered to develop the controller. The proposed controller has the following features: i) The proposed controller has good robustness performance; ii) It is easy to improve tracking performance by setting only one design parameters.


Robotica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaser Maddahi ◽  
Ali Maddahi ◽  
Nariman Sepehri

SUMMARYOdometry errors, which occur during wheeled mobile robot movement, are inevitable as they originate from hard-to-avoid imperfections such as unequal wheels diameters, joints misalignment, backlash, slippage in encoder pulses, and much more. This paper extends the method, developed previously by the authors for calibration of differential mobile robots, to reduce positioning errors for the class of mobile robots having omnidirectional wheels. The method is built upon the easy to construct kinematic formulation of omnidirectional wheels, and is capable of compensating both systematic and non-systematic errors. The effectiveness of the method is experimentally investigated on a prototype three-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot. The validations include tracking unseen trajectories, self-rotation, as well as travelling over surface irregularities. Results show that the method is very effective in improving position errors by at least 68%. Since the method is simple to implement and has no assumption on the sources of errors, it should be considered seriously as a tool for calibrating omnidirectional mobile having any number of wheels.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 168781401774525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung Yue Chen ◽  
Yung Hsiang Chen ◽  
Chiung Yau Huang

A trajectory tracking design for wheeled mobile robots is presented in this article. The design objective is to develop one nonlinear robust control law for the trajectory tracking problem of wheeled mobile robots in the presence of modeling uncertainties. The main contribution of this investigation is as follows. Under the effects of modeling uncertainties, an effective control design which can quickly converge tracking errors between the controlled wheeled mobile robot and the desired trajectory is derived mathematically. Generally, it is difficult to develop a nonlinear robust control design for the trajectory tracking problem of wheeled mobile robots due to the complexity and nonlinearity of the wheeled mobile robots’ dynamics. Fortunately, based on a series analysis for the tracking error dynamics of the controlled wheeled mobile robot, one promising solution is obtained. For verifying the trajectory tracking performance of this proposed method, two scenarios are utilized in the simulations and the practical tests.


Author(s):  
M. de Villiers ◽  
N. S. Tlale

In this paper, a refined control model for a Mecanum-wheeled mobile robot is developed and presented. Available control models in literature for Mecanum-wheeled mobile robots are based on a simplification which defines the contact point of the wheel on the ground as the point in the center of the wheel, which does not vary. This limits the smoothness of motion of a mobile robot employing these wheels and impacts the efficiency of locomotion of mobile robots using Mecanum wheels. The control model proposed in this paper accounts for the fact that the contact point in fact changes position down the axle of the wheel as the angle roller moves on the ground. The developed control model is verified with experimental results. Using the refined model, control of Mecanum-wheeled mobile robot is made more predictable and accurate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 172988141986324
Author(s):  
Ziyong Han ◽  
Shihua Yuan ◽  
Xueyuan Li ◽  
Junjie Zhou

The traditional homogeneous transform maintains central position in the kinematic modelling of robotics. However, for these kinematic modelling of wheeled mobile robots over uneven terrain, the homogeneous transform that represents angular velocity implicitly in the time derivative of the rotation matrix has a drawback in orientation representation. In this article, to improve the angular representation, a new general systematic method for kinematics modelling and analysis of wheeled mobile robot is proposed. The approach uses the Sheth–Uicker convention and loop-closure kinematic chains to derive the position, velocity and acceleration kinematics. The screw coordinates are used to reform the velocity kinematics to centroidal kinematics; then, the Jacobian calculation is simplified to solve the screw vector algebra equations instead of the matrix equations. Meanwhile, the linear and angular components of the centroidal kinematics are endowed with physical meanings and are easy to be selected as control variables. The approach is applied to a wheeled mobile robot, and its effectiveness is verified by the simulation results with various terrain.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hua Cen ◽  
Bhupesh Kumar Singh

Several research studies are conducted based on the control of wheeled mobile robots. Nonholonomy constraints associated with wheeled mobile robots have encouraged the development of highly nonlinear control techniques. Nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot systems might be exposed to numerous payloads as per the application requirements. This can affect statically or dynamically the complete system mass, inertia, the location of the center of mass, and additional hardware constraints. Due to the nonholonomic and motion limited properties of wheeled mobile robots, the precision of trajectory tracking control is poor. The nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot tracking system is therefore being explored. The kinematic model and sliding mode control model are analyzed, and the trajectory tracking control of the robot is carried out using an enhanced variable structure based on sliding mode. The shear and sliding mode controls are designed, and the control stability is reviewed to control the trajectory of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot. The simulation outcomes show that the projected trajectory track control technique is able to improve the mobile robot’s control, the error of a pose is small, and the linear velocity and angular speed can be controlled. Take the linear and angular velocity as the predicted trajectory.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1821
Author(s):  
Luis Alfonso Jordán-Martínez ◽  
Maricela Guadalupe Figueroa-García ◽  
José Humberto Pérez-Cruz

This work presents the realization of a complicated stabilization problem for a three inverted pendulum links-based mobile robot. The actuators of the mobile robot are direct current motors that have tachometer couplings to measure both the position and speed of the wheels and links. Using direct measurements under load and analyzing the deceleration curve, the motor parameters are determined experimentally. A mathematical model of the robot is obtained via the Euler–Lagrange equations. Next, the nonlinear model is linearized and discretized. Based on this discrete LTI model, an optimal controller is designed. The states and disturbances are estimated using a robust detector. Both the controller and detector are implemented in the robot processor. Numerical simulations and experimental tests show a good performance of the controller despite the presence of disturbances.


Author(s):  
Jia Xiaohong ◽  
Ji Linhong ◽  
Jin Dewen ◽  
Zhang Jichuan

Abstract Clearance is inevitable in the kinematic joints of mechanisms. In this paper the dynamic behavior of a crank-slider mechanism with clearance in its tripod-ball sliding joint is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The mathematical model of this new-type joint is established, and the new concepts of basal system and active system are put forward. Based on the mode-change criterion established in this paper, the consistent equations of motion in full-scale are derived by using Kane method. The experimental rig was set up to measure the effects of the clearance on the dynamic response. Corresponding experimental studies verify the theoretical results satisfactorily. In addition, due to the nonlinear elements in the improved mathematical model of the joint with clearance, the chaotic responses are found in numerical simulation.


Author(s):  
Amit Ailon

The paper solves some control problems of mobile robots as both kinematics and dynamics are intertwined in the mathematical model. The problems of driving the vehicle to a desired configuration in a specified time and tracking a reference trajectory are considered. The control problems associated with motion in convoy and rigid formations of a group of vehicles are studied and some results are demonstrated by numerical examples.


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