Title
Three-dimensional steering for an articulated mobile robot with prismatic joints with consideration of hardware limitations
Abstract
The paper presents a three-dimensional steering method for an articulated mobile robot that contains links, rotational joints, prismatic joints, and active wheels. The robot can change the angles of its links using the rotational joints and vary the lengths of its links using the prismatic joints. The target motion of this robot is represented by a continuous curve and the motions of the joints and the wheels are calculated by fitting the entire robot to this target curve. The forward velocity of the robot's head is adjusted to satisfy the hardware limitations of the robot; e.g. joint angle, joint velocity, and wheel velocity limitations. In addition, a terrain-following method is presented that considers the changes in the lengths of the links. An experimental articulated mobile robot was developed and experiments were carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1080/01691864.2020.1753568
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Articulated mobile robot,prismatic joint,shift control,constraints
Journal
34.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP11
0169-1864
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Motoyasu Tanaka118025.20
Mizuki Nakajima233.25
Ryo Ariizumi3115.18
Kazuo Tanaka440840.44