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A four-wheel steered mobile robot is fit for a higher power or improvement in the movement speed of a robot than a two-independent wheeled one. Since a steered mobile robot that slips very often cannot apply a popular dead-reckoning method using rotary encoders, it is desirable to use external sensors such as cameras. This paper describes a method to trace a straight line for four-wheel steered mobile robots using an image-based control method. Its controller is designed as a fuzzy controller and evaluated through some simulations and real robot.
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Kato, T., Watanabe, K. & Maeyama, S. Image-based fuzzy trajectory tracking control for four-wheel steered mobile robots. Artif Life Robotics 17, 130–135 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-012-0026-4
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