Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system

In this paper, a virtual wheelchair (WC) model is developed within Visual Nastran (VN) software environment where the model is further linked with Matlab/Simulink for control purposes. The goal is to have stable two-wheeled WC by transforming the two front wheels (caster) to the upright position. Th...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Salmiah, Tokhi, M. Osman, Hussain, Zakaria
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/2050/1/569180039.pdf
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author Ahmad, Salmiah
Tokhi, M. Osman
Hussain, Zakaria
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description In this paper, a virtual wheelchair (WC) model is developed within Visual Nastran (VN) software environment where the model is further linked with Matlab/Simulink for control purposes. The goal is to have stable two-wheeled WC by transforming the two front wheels (caster) to the upright position. Theoretically, when the two big wheels are fed by the same torque, the WC system will only move in one (x-) direction (with a small forward and backward movement before settlement is achieved). On the other hand, WC in VN produces action-reaction forces in terms of friction between the wheels and the defined ground that lead to small degree of rotation with respect to vertical z- axis, (yaw disturbance). Fuzzy logic control is designed in order to eliminate this unwanted rotation of the wheels during lifting and stabilizing phase. Results show that the unwanted rotation of the wheels is successfully reduced.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:20502011-09-20T02:33:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2050/ Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system Ahmad, Salmiah Tokhi, M. Osman Hussain, Zakaria TJ210.2 Mechanical devices and figures. Automata. Ingenious mechanism. Robots (General) TJ212 Control engineering In this paper, a virtual wheelchair (WC) model is developed within Visual Nastran (VN) software environment where the model is further linked with Matlab/Simulink for control purposes. The goal is to have stable two-wheeled WC by transforming the two front wheels (caster) to the upright position. Theoretically, when the two big wheels are fed by the same torque, the WC system will only move in one (x-) direction (with a small forward and backward movement before settlement is achieved). On the other hand, WC in VN produces action-reaction forces in terms of friction between the wheels and the defined ground that lead to small degree of rotation with respect to vertical z- axis, (yaw disturbance). Fuzzy logic control is designed in order to eliminate this unwanted rotation of the wheels during lifting and stabilizing phase. Results show that the unwanted rotation of the wheels is successfully reduced. 2009-06-12 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2050/1/569180039.pdf Ahmad, Salmiah and Tokhi, M. Osman and Hussain, Zakaria (2009) Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system. In: Third Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation, AMS '09. , 25 - 29 May, 2009. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5072029&queryText%3DRejection+of+yaw+disturbance+in+a+two-wheeled+wheelchair+system%26openedRefinements%3D*%26filter%3DAND%28NOT%284283010803%29%29%26searchField%3DSearch+All
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Tokhi, M. Osman
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Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title_full Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title_fullStr Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title_full_unstemmed Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title_short Rejection of yaw disturbance in a two-wheeled wheelchair system
title_sort rejection of yaw disturbance in a two wheeled wheelchair system
topic TJ210.2 Mechanical devices and figures. Automata. Ingenious mechanism. Robots (General)
TJ212 Control engineering
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/2050/1/569180039.pdf
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