Title :
System and design of an Omni-directional vehicle
Author :
Qian, Huihuan ; Lam, Tin Lun ; Li, Weimin ; Xia, Chenggang ; Xu, Yangsheng
Author_Institution :
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel vehicle named omni-directional Kart (OK-1), in which robotic technologies, such as 4 wheel independent driving (4WID) and 4 wheel independent steering (4WIS), are integrated to decouple the motions of translation and rotation from each other. As a result, omni-directional motions such as zero radius turning (ZRT) and lateral parking (LP) are realized for better vehicle steerability and mobility in limited space.
Keywords :
Automotive engineering; Biomimetics; Design automation; Design engineering; Mobile robots; Robotics and automation; Tin; Turning; Vehicle driving; Wheels; Omni-directional vehicle; four wheel independent driving; four wheel independent steering; x-by-wire;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2678-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2679-9
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913035
