Human transport system with dead reckoning facilitating docking

Details Human transport system with dead reckoning facilitating docking Human transport system with dead reckoning facilitating docking

1997-04-21

2000-10-24

Swann, J. J.

Motor vehicles

With device for programmably operating vehicles steerable...

180 65, 180168, B62D 122

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061352284

ABSTRACT:
A hybrid personal vehicle capable of holonomic omni-directional self-locomotion. The vehicle may be programmed to navigate to a specified location in a crowded household environment. Additionally, sensors are provided for accurate docking and tight mating with fixtures such as a toilet or bed. A controller determines a docking trajectory to a specified fixture and behaves with arbitrary stiffness in each degree of freedom about a determined center of compliance.

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