Dual-Wheeled Mobile Robots
Advantages:
- Two motors are mounted onto the platform
- Unlimited steering capability
- No wire entanglement problems
- Uniform tire-wear rate
- Two identical motors are used for driving
- Symmetry
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To obtain the PDF file of the paper below, click here.
Angeles, J., 2005, “An innovative drive for wheeled mobile robots,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 43-49.
To obtain the PDF file of the paper below, click here.
Chen, C. and Angeles, J., 2006, “The rapid prototyping of a mobile robot with one DWT using lego components,” The Report of Lego DWT.
A Lego model is shown below:
Dual-Wheeled Mobile Videos: