Simulation of a Differentially-Driven Vehicle Robot in Simulink®

The computer-simulation is a very important step in modern system designing. The "differential drive and global positioning blockset" is the tool which can be used with Simulinkreg for modeling, designing, and simulation of the dynamics of a type of vehicle robots called differentially driven vehicle robot. This tool carries the blocks which simulate the behavior of the different real components, which are required to build a vehicle robot with differential steering method. It also has the blocks with built-in global positioning algorithm (based on dead-reckoning position estimation method), which are useful in finding out the current position and heading of the vehicle robot. This research paper presents the main features of the blockset along with the key algorithms, which were formulated to develop this blockset