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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: papers on mobile robots with 2 independently steered drive wheels?
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 18:46:47 GMT
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rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
>I'm looking for references to papers or work on robots that have multiple
>independently steered drive wheels.  Since we have already built one, I am
>most interested in discussions about control and restriction of orientations
>and drive velocities and transitions between different types of motions.
>(Obviously there are many illegal wheel orientation/velocity configurations
>in this setup.)

       There's been considerable research on rear-wheel steering for
autos, and there are probably SAE Journal papers on it.

					John Nagle
