Investigation of longitudinal friction characteristics of an omnidirectional wheel via LuGre model

In recent years, omnidirectional wheels have found more applications in the design of automated guided vehicles (AGV). In this work, LuGre friction model is used for an omnidirectional wheel. A test setup that includes a single omnidirectional wheel is designed and constructed to identify the model parameters. With the help of the constructed test setup, the longitudinal friction characteristic of the omnidirectional wheel is obtained, and the model is verified via validation tests. In addition, for the first time, the effect of lateral frictional force on longitudinal motion is examined for an omnidirectional wheel through experiments.