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Using two DC motors and two wheels is the easiest way to build a mobile robot. In this chapter, we will discuss several robot designs such as differential drive, synchro-drive, Ackermann steering and omni-directional drives.

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Bräunl, T. (2022). Driving Robots. In: Embedded Robotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0804-9_10

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