— ODIS is an omni-directional mobile robot designed to autonomously or semi-autonomously inspect automobiles in a parking lot. Periodically, its position and orientation referenc...
Matthew D. Berkemeier, Morgan E. Davidson, Vikas B...
— The hardware and control concept of a mobile haptic interface is presented. It is intended to provide spatially unrestricted, dual-handed haptic interaction. The device is comp...
Ulrich Unterhinninghofen, Thomas Schauss, Martin B...
— Mobile platforms equipped with several steering wheels are known to be omnidirectional, i.e., able to independently translate and rotate on the plane. As an improvement to this...
Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Matthias Fuchs, Alin Albu-...
— The paper focuses on leader-follower formations of nonholonomic mobile robots. A formation control alternative to those existing in the literature is introduced. We show that t...
— We propose two contrasting approaches to the scalable distributed control of a swarm of self-assembling miniaturized robots, specifically the formation of chains of a desired ...