Control of Single Wheel Robots

This monograph presents a novel concept of a mobile robot, which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot. The robot is balanced by a spinning wheel attached through a two-link manipulator at the wheel bearing, and actuated by a drive motor. This configuration conveys significant advantages including insensitivity to attitude disturbances, high maneuverability, low rolling resistance, ability to recover from falls, and amphibious capability for potential applications on both land and water. This book focuses on the dynamics and control aspects, including modeling, model-based control, learning-based control, and shared control with human operators. This novel mobile robot concept opens up the science of dynamically stable systems with a single wheel configuration. The book also presents considerations in concept, design implementations, and kinematics modeling, as well as experimental results from various algorithms and cases. The system is a nonholonomic, underactuated, and highly nonlinear system, so this book is appropriate for scientists and engineers with interests in mobile robot, dynamics and control, as a research reference and postgraduate textbook.

Presents a novel concept of a mobile robot called Gyrover, which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot Presents significant advantages and real world applications of the concept Gives a complete picture of mobile robots Opens up a science of dynamically stable systems with a single wheel configuration

Inhalt
Introduction.- Kinematics and Dynamics.- Model-based Control.- Learning-Based Control.- Further Topics on Learning-based Control.- Shared Control.- Conclusions.