Effective design choices for skid steering robotic vehicles

Aakash K. Sinha; Mark Rosenblum

doi:10.1117/12.580228

29 December 2004 Effective design choices for skid-steering robotic vehicles

Aakash K. Sinha, Mark Rosenblum

Proceedings Volume 5609, Mobile Robots XVII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580228
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

One of the major problems with any robotic vehicle is inefficient use of available power. This research explores in detail the locomotion, power dynamics and performance of a skid steered robotic vehicle and develops techniques to derive efficient design parameters of the vehicle in order to achieve optimal performance by minimizing the power losses/consumption. Three categories of design variables describe the vehicle and its dynamics; variables that describe the vehicle, variables that describe the surface on which it runs and variables that describe the vehicle’s motion. Two major constituent components of power losses/consumption of the vehicle are − losses in skid steer turning, and losses in rolling. Our focus is on skid steering, we present a detailed analysis of skid steering for different turning modes; elastic mode steering, half-slip steering, skid turns, low radius turns, and zero radius turns. Each of the power loss components is modeled from physics in terms of the design variables. The effect of design variables on the total power losses/consumption is then studied using simulated data for different types of surfaces i.e. hard surfaces and muddy surfaces. Finally, we make suggestions about efficient vehicle design choices in terms of the design variables.

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Aakash K. Sinha and Mark Rosenblum "Effective design choices for skid-steering robotic vehicles", Proc. SPIE 5609, Mobile Robots XVII, (29 December 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580228

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