[HTML][HTML] Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review

A Diouf, B Belzile, M Saad, D St-Onge - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Spherical robots have garnered increasing interest for their applications in exploration,
tunnel inspection, and extraterrestrial missions. Diverse designs have emerged, including …

A wheeled robot driven by a liquid‐metal droplet

J Wu, SY Tang, T Fang, W Li, X Li… - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The controlled actuation of gallium liquid‐metal (LM) alloys has presented new and exciting
opportunities for constructing mobile robots with structural flexibility. However, the …

[PDF][PDF] Research progress and development trend of spherical mobile robots

战**, **伟 - Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2019 - qikan.cmes.org
Spherical mobile robot (spherical robot in short) is a fully enclosed robot with a ball-shaped
outer shell, which can move by shifting its gravity center or through the principle of …

Multi-terrain velocity control of the spherical robot by online obtaining the uncertainties in the dynamics

Y Liu, Y Wang, X Guan, Y Wang, S **… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One controller cannot work on multiple and unknown terrains in the velocity control of the
spherical robot, because the dynamic models of the robot vary on different terrains, and …

Direction and trajectory tracking control for nonholonomic spherical robot by combining sliding mode controller and model prediction controller

Y Liu, Y Wang, X Guan, T Hu, Z Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A spherical robot is a nonlinear, nonholonomic, and unstable system which increases the
difficulty of the direction and trajectory tracking problem. In this study, we propose a new …

Nonholonomic dynamics and control of a spherical robot with an internal omniwheel platform: Theory and experiments

YL Karavaev, AA Kilin - Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2016 - Springer
We present the results of theoretical and experimental investigations of the motion of a
spherical robot on a plane. The motion is actuated by a platform with omniwheels placed …

Algorithm for controlling an inertioid robot with a flywheel and an unbalance in conditions of restrictions on the angular acceleration of the unbalance

M Dosaev - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
The plane-parallel motion of a vibrating robot containing one unbalanced rotor and one
flywheel is considered. The robot body is supported by two points on a rough supporting …

Design and kinematics of mechanically coupled two identical spherical robots

IH Sagsoz, T Eray - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2023 - Springer
The use of spherical robots in outdoor operations has increased because they can move on
uneven/three-dimensional (3D) terrain. Since the non-holonomic constraints and the rolling …

[HTML][HTML] Rolling, tilting and spinning spherical wheels: analytical results using the brush theory

L Romano, F Timpone, F Bruzelius… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the rolling dynamics of spherical wheels using the theoretical
framework provided by the brush models. The analysis is mainly conducted under the …

Point stabilization of nonholonomic spherical mobile robot using nonlinear model predictive control

MR Azizi, J Keighobadi - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Control of nonholonomic spherical mobile robot is a generalization of the classical ball-plate
problem which is still challenging in robotic researches. In this paper, point stabilization of a …