MIRRAX: a reconfigurable robot for limited access environments

W Cheah, K Groves, H Martin, H Peel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of mobile robot platforms for inspection has gained traction in recent
years. However, conventional mobile robots are unable to address the challenge of …

Dual-mode model predictive control of an omnidirectional wheeled inverted pendulum

MT Watson, DT Gladwin, TJ Prescott… - … ASME Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes the position and heading control of a novel form of omnidirectional
wheeled inverted pendulum platform known as a collinear Mecanum drive. This concept …

Omni Differential Drive for Simultaneous Reconfiguration and Omnidirectional Mobility of Wheeled Robots

Z Zhao, P Xie, MQH Meng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10773, 2024 - arxiv.org
Wheeled robots are highly efficient in human living environments. However, conventional
wheeled designs, limited by degrees of freedom, struggle to meet varying footprint needs …