Backward motion control of an articulated robotic vehicle with off-axle passive trailers, as presented in the paper ‘Virtual Steering Limitations for Reversing an Articulated Vehicle with Off-Axle Passive Trailers. Jesús Morales, Jorge L. Martínez, Anthony Mandow, and Itza J. Medina. 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009). Porto, Portugal’. Two [...]

This video describes and demonstrates a multi-material polymer prototyping process for quickly, easily, and inexpensively fabricating simple mobile robots. While this process uses low efficiency shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators for now, these will eventually be replaced with more efficient actuators (electrostatics or piezoelectrics). Our goal is to reduce design cycle time and cost [...]

This video describes and demonstrates a multi-material polymer prototyping process for quickly, easily, and inexpensively fabricating simple mobile robots. While this process uses low efficiency shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators for now, these will eventually be replaced with more efficient actuators (electrostatics or piezoelectrics). Our goal is to reduce design cycle time and cost [...]