Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and unified presentation
of recent developments in skid-steer wheeled mobile robots (SSWMR) with regard to its …

Intelligent machines were developed in various sectors including agriculture to ameliorate
the problem of labor shortage especially the skilled ones. Due to concern about the …

It is well recognized in the automotive research community that knowledge of the real-time
tire-road friction coefficient can be extremely valuable for active safety applications …

Resistance coefficient (RC) is an important measure when designing wheel-driving
mechanisms and accurate dynamic models for real-time mobility control of wheeled mobile …

Fusion of X-band Doppler radar and infrared sensors can offer a great advantage for close
proximity time-to-collision (TTC) prediction in the field of autonomous robot navigation due to …

This paper presents a new compensation technique for dynamic friction. The proposed
control utilizes a PD control structure and an adaptive estimation of the friction force based …

Vehicle speed measurement (VSM) based on video images represents the development
direction of speed measurement in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This paper …

Accurate wheel slip estimation facilitates Wheeled Mobile Robots (WMRs) with improved
localization and traversability monitoring which are crucial to their autonomy in challenging …

This paper deals with accuracy and reliability for the path tracking control of a four wheel
mobile robot with a double-steering system when moving at high dynamics on a slippery …

Wheeled field robots have promising widespread civil and military applications in off-road
conditions. The complex off-road working conditions pose substantial challenges in applying …