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Omnidirectional Mobile Platform for Research and Development
Kuniaki Kawabata, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Hayato Kaetsu and Hajime Asama
Advanced Engineering Center, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Received:November 13, 2001Accepted:December 17, 2001Published:April 20, 2002
Keywords:omnidirectional driving mechanism, RoboCup, platform
Abstract
We detail an omnidirectional mobile platform for research and development (R&D). In 1995, we reported that a special driving mechanism for holonomic omnidirectional mobile robots was designed to enable 3 degree of freedom (DOF) motion control by 3 corresponding actuators decoupled with no redundancy. We constructed a omnidirectional mobile robot prototype with a drive. We took part in a RoboCup tournament as Uttori United with omnidirectional mobile robots: ZEN-450, using our driving mechanism, in 1997, and 2000. ZEN-450 showed high mobility during the tournament However, unpredictable problems occurred because ZEN-450 is not developed for robotic soccer. , We considered improving its hardware as a platform. We report the new platform and test-running results.
Cite this article as:K. Kawabata, T. Suzuki, H. Kaetsu, and H. Asama, “Omnidirectional Mobile Platform for Research and Development,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.14 No.2, pp. 105-111, 2002.Data files:
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