Advance Modeling of a Skid-Steering Mobile Robot for Remote ...

IINothing great in the World has been accomplishedwithout passion and friends.G. W. F. HegelAcknowledgmentsI have been indebted in the preparation of this thesis to my supervisor at Roger WilliamsUniversity, Professor Matthew Stein, whose patience and kindness, as well as his academicexperience, have been invaluable to me. I am extremely grateful to my supervisor at Universityof Genoa, Professor Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, who helped me in the completion of thisthesis in Genoa, and whose proficiency and helpfulness have made this work more completeand fulfilling.I want also to heartily thank my great friend and colleague Mariella Buttaci, who has accompaniedme in this unique experience abroad and without whom this thesis would probablynot have existed.