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Dynamics of Mobile Manipulators Using Dual Quaternion Algebra
on September 14, 2022 at 12:00 am
AbstractThis article presents two approaches to obtain the dynamical equations of mobile manipulators using dual quaternion algebra. The first one is based on a general recursive Newton–Euler formulation and uses twists and wrenches, which are propagated through high-level algebraic operations and works for any type of joints and arbitrary parameterizations. The second approach is based on Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint (GPLC) and includes arbitrary equality constraints. In addition to showing the connections of GPLC with Gibbs–Appell and Kane’s equations, we use it to model a nonholonomic mobile manipulator. Our current formulations are more general than their counterparts in the state of the art, although GPLC is more computationally expensive, and simulation results show that they are as accurate as the classic recursive Newton–Euler algorithm.

Cosimulation and Control of a Single-Wheel Pendulum Mobile Robot

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Cosimulation is widely used as a powerful tool for performance evaluation of systems design. This approach presents advantages over traditional design methodologies for saving money and time in the development process and the possibility of evaluating rapidly design alternatives by using virtual prototypes. This article presents an adams/matlab cosimulation for the dynamics and control of a Single-Wheel pendulum ROBot (SWROB) with inertial locomotion actuation to characterize design solutions by means of validation of analytical results. The obtained results by the proposed cosimulation show a significant performance based on the analytical and programming efforts in characterizing and simulating the designed system model. Moreover, open-loop experimental results are presented to validate both the analytical model and the virtual prototype.
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