• DocumentCode
    2545992
  • Title

    A development of a new mechanism of an autonomous unicycle

  • Author

    Nakajima, Ryo ; Tsubouchi, Takashi ; Yuta, Shin Ichi ; Koyanagi, Eiji

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    7-11 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    906
  • Abstract
    We propose a new mechanism of a unicycle. One feature of this robot is the shape of the wheel which is similar to a rugby ball. The other feature is that the body is separated into upper and lower parts. We give the details of a mechanism of the robot, simple controller system, and some results of a performance experiment using the designed controller. We present experimental results that show that the robot can move in a straight line and steer itself by the proposed mechanism
  • Keywords
    control system synthesis; feedback; mobile robots; position control; velocity control; autonomous unicycle; controller system; steering; Control systems; Gyroscopes; Mobile robots; Navigation; Orbital robotics; Robot control; Robot kinematics; Shape; Stability; Wheels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1997. IROS '97., Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Grenoble
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4119-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IROS.1997.655117
  • Filename
    655117