Robot navigation is an indispensable component of any mobile service robot. Many path
planning algorithms generate a path which has many sharp or angular turns. Such paths are …

Abstract Mechatronics and Robotics (MaR) have recently gained importance in product
development and manufacturing settings and applications. Therefore, the Center for Space …

In this paper a smooth starter, based on a dc/dc Buck power converter, for the angular
velocity trajectory tracking task of a dc permanent magnet motor is presented. To this end, a …

Rolling is a ubiquitous transport mode utilized by living organisms and engineered systems.
However, rolling at the microscale has been constrained by the requirement of a physical …

Mobile manipulators that combine base mobility with the dexterity of an articulated
manipulator have gained popularity in numerous applications ranging from manufacturing …

In this work a three-level controller that carries out the trajectory tracking task for a differential
drive wheeled mobile robot (WMR) is presented. Such a controller considers, for the first …

In this paper, we propose a novel computed voltage based control law for an omnidirectional
wheeled mobile robot equipped with four mecanum wheels. First, the dynamical model for …

This paper presents a survey on mobile robots as systems that can move in different
environments with walking, flying and swimming up to solutions that combine those …

Soft robotic systems are well suited to unstructured, dynamic tasks and environments, owing
to their ability to adapt and conform without damaging themselves or their surroundings …

The aim of this paper is to improve the dynamic window approach algorithm for mobile
robots by implementing a prediction window with a fuzzy inference system to adapt to fixed …