Chapter 49 — Modeling and Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots

Tracking of an omnidirectional frame with a unicycle-like robot

This video shows an experiment performed in 2005 with a unicyle-like robot. A video camera mounted at the top of a robotic arm enabled estimation of the 2-D pose (position/orientation) of the robot with respect to a visual target consisting of three white bars. These bars materialized an omnidirectional moving frame. The experiment demonstrated the capacity of the nonholonomic robot to track in both position and orientation this ominidirectional frame, based on the transverse function control approach.
Guillaume Artus, Pascal Morin, Claude Samson
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