Virtual prototype of fast differentially driven mobile robot aimed at control algorithm development

This paper briefly reports about the project of virtual prototyping of differentially driven soccer robot. The main motivation is given by the necessity to model the system dynamics during the advanced control algorithm development. During the fast manoeuvres the slipping frequently appears and subsequently the control is lost. The Simulink environment is usually used for simulations of control problems and SimMechanics allows the modelling of mechanical issues with automatic equation derivation.