Wheeled Mobile Robot

Robotics is one of the most exciting Technology fields in modern science. Conventional wheels are the most widely used among wheeled mobile robots WMRs with wheeled locomotion. These wheels are simple to construct, require little maintenance, provide smooth motion, offer high load-carrying capacity and they are cheap. The main contribution of this Book is to present and discuss a new approach for development of a kinematic model and control strategy for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot. Vision is an important aspect of robotics and can sometimes be one of the only ways to make a robot fully capable of maneuvering in any situation. This Book presents a novel computer vision methodology for building a system capable of determining the presence of a path follower, tracking the objects on that path, and recognizing the objects shape. The Book addresses three important topics in mobile robotics. These are the path follower, the multi-sensors and the steering fuzzy controllers for wheeled mobile robot.

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Mohammed M. Al Khalidy, Ph.D.: Studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Technology Baghdad. Aerospace Engineer, Asst. Professor at GU, Bahrain.