Mechanical and electrical design about a mecanum wheeled omni-directional mobile robot

Author

Baeksuk Chu ; Young Whee Sung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Intell. Mech. Eng., Kumoh Nat. Inst. of Technol., Gumi, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 30 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

668

Abstract

This research deals with design of an omni-directional mobile robot based on Mecanum wheels in mechanical and electrical aspects. To enable immediate motion to any desired directions, so called omni-directionality, a special type of wheel, whose name is Mecanum wheel, is employed. The platform of the suggested mobile robot has conventional squared structure. A stand-alone embedded real-time processor is used for electrical design. In order to make omni-directional motion of the mobile robot, an operator generates a driving signal by adjusting the tilting angle of a joystick. Distance sensors installed around the mobile robot give an ability to recognize environmental situation.

Keywords

control engineering computing; design engineering; electrical engineering computing; mechanical engineering computing; mobile robots; motion control; wheels; Mecanum wheeled omni-directional mobile robot; distance sensors; driving signal generation; electrical design; embedded real-time processor; environmental situation recognition; mechanical design; omni-directional motion; omni-directionality; tilting angle adjustment; Mecanum wheel; Mobile robot; electrical design; mechanical design; omni-directional wheel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1195-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URAI.2013.6677426

Filename

6677426