Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Two-wheel robot shoots for the Moon
It has been brought to my attention that in addition to the Ask Charlie Blog there is also an article in Control Engineering about Team FREDNET, JALURO , and the Google Lunar X PRIZE in general. You can read the article online here.
Ask Charlie: Is it possible to stabilize a 2-wheel robotic vehicle?
Yes, it's about JALURO :-)
Charlie Masi from Control Engineering blogged about our 2-wheel rover prototype and the control challenges we are faced with. While the 2-wheel setup with underslung chassis is statically stable, the pendulum-like properties make it difficult to keep the rover body stable during acceleration and deceleration. You can read the blog post, which also contains an analysis, on the Control Engineering website.
For the sake of completeness, I've included the video showing JALURO's first test drive (this was already posted back in December 2008).
Charlie Masi from Control Engineering blogged about our 2-wheel rover prototype and the control challenges we are faced with. While the 2-wheel setup with underslung chassis is statically stable, the pendulum-like properties make it difficult to keep the rover body stable during acceleration and deceleration. You can read the blog post, which also contains an analysis, on the Control Engineering website.
For the sake of completeness, I've included the video showing JALURO's first test drive (this was already posted back in December 2008).
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