Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots

This paper presents a design of bounded controllers with a predetermined bound for global path tracking control of unicycle-type mobile robots at the torque level. A new one-step ahead backstepping method is first introduced. The heading angle and linear velocity of the robots are then considered as...

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Main Author: Do, Khac Duc
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11774
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description This paper presents a design of bounded controllers with a predetermined bound for global path tracking control of unicycle-type mobile robots at the torque level. A new one-step ahead backstepping method is first introduced. The heading angle and linear velocity of the robots are then considered as immediate controls to force the position of the robots to globally and asymptotically track its reference path. These immediate controls are designed based on the one-step ahead backstepping method to yield bounded control laws. Next, the one-step ahead backstepping method is applied again to design bounded control torques of the robots with a pre-specified bound. The proposed control design ensures global asymptotical and local exponential convergence of the position and orientation tracking errors to zero, and bounded torques driving the robots. Experimental results on a Khepera mobile robot verify the proposed control controller.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-117742017-09-13T14:56:51Z Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots Do, Khac Duc Mobile robots Bounded control Global tracking Lyapunov's direct method One-step ahead backstepping method This paper presents a design of bounded controllers with a predetermined bound for global path tracking control of unicycle-type mobile robots at the torque level. A new one-step ahead backstepping method is first introduced. The heading angle and linear velocity of the robots are then considered as immediate controls to force the position of the robots to globally and asymptotically track its reference path. These immediate controls are designed based on the one-step ahead backstepping method to yield bounded control laws. Next, the one-step ahead backstepping method is applied again to design bounded control torques of the robots with a pre-specified bound. The proposed control design ensures global asymptotical and local exponential convergence of the position and orientation tracking errors to zero, and bounded torques driving the robots. Experimental results on a Khepera mobile robot verify the proposed control controller. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11774 10.1016/j.robot.2013.04.014 Elsevier Science BV restricted
spellingShingle Mobile robots
Bounded control
Global tracking
Lyapunov's direct method
One-step ahead backstepping method
Do, Khac Duc
Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title_full Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title_fullStr Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title_full_unstemmed Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title_short Bounded Controllers for Global Path Tracking Control of Unicycle-type Mobile Robots
title_sort bounded controllers for global path tracking control of unicycle-type mobile robots
topic Mobile robots
Bounded control
Global tracking
Lyapunov's direct method
One-step ahead backstepping method
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11774