title: On designing geometric motion planners to solve regulating and trajectory tracking problems for robotic locomotion systems.
abstract: Based on a geometric fiber bundle structure, a generalized method to solve both regulation and trajectory tracking problems for locomotion systems is presented. The method is especially applied to two case studies of robotic locomotion systems; a three link articulated fish-like robot as a prototype of locomotion systems with symmetry, and the snakeboard as a prototype of mixed locomotion systems. Our results show that although these motion planners have an open loop structure, due to their generalities, they can steer case studies with negligible errors for almost any complicated path.
authors.affiliation: Hydro-Aeronautical Research Center, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. asnafi@shirazu.ac.ir
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asnafi
authors.forename: Mojtaba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mahzoon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D040761:Biomimetic Materials; D032701:Biomimetics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology*