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Control of a two-wheel robotic vehicle for personal transportation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2014

H. W. Kim  and
S. Jung
H. W. Kim
Affiliation:
Intelligent Systems and Emotional Engineering (ISEE) Laboratory, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
S. Jung*
Affiliation:
Intelligent Systems and Emotional Engineering (ISEE) Laboratory, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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Summary

Recently, small-sized compact electric vehicles have been in demand for short-distance travel in urban areas, although battery charging in electric vehicles present in the market is still problematic. Borrowing from the concept of a mobile inverted pendulum system, in this paper, a two-wheel robotic vehicle system is implemented and controlled as the future personal transportation device called the TransBOT. The TransBOT has two driving modes: a regular vehicle mode, where stable contact on the ground is maintained by two wheels and two casters, and the balancing mode, which maintains the stable posture with two wheels on the ground. The two-wheel balancing mechanism can be used as a transportation vehicle in narrow and busy urban areas. Gain scheduling control methods based on linear controllers are used for different drivers. In addition, desired balancing angles are specified for the different sizes of drivers in order to have a stable balancing control performance. These desired balancing angle values have been found by empirical studies. Experimental studies with drivers of different weights, as well as indoor and outdoor driving tasks, were conducted to ensure the feasibility of TransBOT.

Keywords

Two-wheel robotPersonal vehicleSensor fusionBalancing control
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Robotica , Volume 34 , Issue 5: RAAD , May 2016 , pp. 1186 - 1208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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