Continuous mobility of mobile robots with a special ability for overcoming driving failure on rough terrain

Robotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2076-2096
Author(s):  
He Xu ◽  
X. Z. Gao ◽  
Yan Xu ◽  
Kaifeng Wang ◽  
Hongpeng Yu ◽  
...  

SUMMARYFor wheeled mobile robots moving in rough terrains or uncertain environments, driving failure will be encountered when trafficability failure occurs. Continuous mobility of mobile robots with special ability for overcoming driving failure on rough terrain has rarely been considered. This study was conducted using a four-wheel-steering and four-wheel-driving mobile robot equipped with a binocular visual system. First, quasi-static force analysis is carried out to understand the effects of different driving-failure modes on the mobile robot while moving on rough terrain. Secondly, to make the best of the rest of the driving force, robot configuration transformation is employed to select the optimal configuration that can overcome the driving failure. Thirdly, sliding mode control based on back-stepping is adopted to enable the robot achieve continuous trajectory tracking with visual feedback. Finally, the efficacy of the presented approach is verified by simulations and experiments.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Laksmana Singgeta

Mobile robot adalah salah satu jenis robot yang menggunakan aktuator/penggerak untuk mengubah keadaan serta posisi dari satu titik ke titik yang lain. Wheeled mobile robots (WMR) atau roda robot biasanya dikontrol dan dikendalikan agar bisa bergerak dan berpindah posisi sesuai yang ditentukan. Pengendalian WMR sering digunakan dalam otomasi pada proses industri serta di bidang lain seperti pertanian. Untuk mendapatkan performans WMR yang baik maka perlu merancang dan mendesain kontrol yang tepat. Dalam paper ini sliding mode tracking control di desain untuk mengendalikan wheeled mobile robots yang disimulasikannya menggunnakan Matlab. Mobile robot merupakan non-holonomic systems. Penelitian ini telah banyak dilakukan pada masalah tracking kontrol pada WMR. Skema kinematic tracking kontrol tidak mempertimbangkan dinamika atau kelembaman (inersia) dari mobile robot. Adapun metode penelitian yang dilakukan adalah pertama, disajikan model kinematik dari empat jenis roda yang umum seperti fixed, centered orientable, castor and Swedish. Mobile robot pada paper ini dianalisa dengan kajian kinematik. Kedua, mendesain sebuah sliding mode tracking control untuk menemukan target sebagai lintasan yang telah ditentukan serta untuk mengurangi error pada posisi start. Dengan sliding mode control yang telah di desain, dapat menunjukan hasil respon yang baik, dimana WMR dapat bergerak pada lintasan menuju ke titik akhir/target yang telah ditentukan.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hua Cen ◽  
Bhupesh Kumar Singh

Several research studies are conducted based on the control of wheeled mobile robots. Nonholonomy constraints associated with wheeled mobile robots have encouraged the development of highly nonlinear control techniques. Nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot systems might be exposed to numerous payloads as per the application requirements. This can affect statically or dynamically the complete system mass, inertia, the location of the center of mass, and additional hardware constraints. Due to the nonholonomic and motion limited properties of wheeled mobile robots, the precision of trajectory tracking control is poor. The nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot tracking system is therefore being explored. The kinematic model and sliding mode control model are analyzed, and the trajectory tracking control of the robot is carried out using an enhanced variable structure based on sliding mode. The shear and sliding mode controls are designed, and the control stability is reviewed to control the trajectory of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot. The simulation outcomes show that the projected trajectory track control technique is able to improve the mobile robot’s control, the error of a pose is small, and the linear velocity and angular speed can be controlled. Take the linear and angular velocity as the predicted trajectory.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988141875457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor M Becerra ◽  
J Armando Colunga ◽  
Jose Guadalupe Romero

This article is devoted to the design of robust position-tracking controllers for a perturbed wheeled mobile robot. We address the final objective of pose-regulation in a predefined time, which means that the robot position and orientation must reach desired final values simultaneously in a user-defined time. To do so, we propose the robust tracking of adequate trajectories for position coordinates, enforcing that the robot’s heading evolves tangent to the position trajectory and consequently the robot reaches a desired orientation. The robust tracking is achieved by a proportional–integral action or by a super-twisting sliding mode control. The main contribution of this article is a kinematic control approach for pose-regulation of wheeled mobile robots in which the orientation angle is not directly controlled in the closed-loop, which simplifies the structure of the control system with respect to existing approaches. An offline trajectory planning method based on parabolic and cubic curves is proposed and integrated with robust controllers to achieve good accuracy in the final values of position and orientation. The novelty in the trajectory planning is the generation of a set of candidate trajectories and the selection of one of them that favors the correction of the robot’s final orientation. Realistic simulations and experiments using a real robot show the good performance of the proposed scheme even in the presence of strong disturbances.


2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Juhairi Aziz Safar

Holonomic and omnidirectional locomotion systems are best known for their capability to maneuver at any arbitrary direction regardless of their current position and orientation with a three degrees of freedom mobility. This paper summarizes the advancement of holonomic and omnidirectional locomotion systems for wheeled mobile robot applications and discuss the issues and challenges for future improvement.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. L Zhang ◽  
S. A. Velinsky ◽  
X. Feng

Fundamental tracking control algorithms of a differentially steered wheeled mobile robot with two conventional driven wheels are studied through analyzing the robot’s inherent kinematics. This includes the tracking variable assignment as well as the tracking singularity and position-orientation tracking decoupling problems. Globally convergent tracking control algorithms are proposed, which can exactly track any differentiable reference path. A fundamental motion orientation equation under the condition of exact position tracking is developed, and it is shown that it is not possible to exactly track both position and orientation concurrently for this kind of mobile robot configuration if the tracking point is not on the baseline. Examples are provided illustrating the tracking ability of the developed control algorithms.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Hendzel ◽  
Ł. Rykała

Abstract The work presents the dynamic equations of motion of a wheeled mobile robot with mecanum wheels derived with the use of Lagrange equations of the second kind. Mecanum wheels are a new type of wheels used in wheeled mobile robots and they consist of freely rotating rollers attached to the circumference of the wheels. In order to derive dynamic equations of motion of a wheeled mobile robot, the kinetic energy of the system is determined, as well as the generalised forces affecting the system. The resulting mathematical model of a wheeled mobile robot was generated with the use of Maple V software. The results of a solution of inverse and forward problems of dynamics of the discussed object are also published.


2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Guang Tong ◽  
Xin Xing

In this paper, a new robust trajectory tracking control scheme for wheeled mobile robots without velocity measurement is proposed. In the proposed controller, the velocity observer is used to estimate the velocity of wheeled mobile robot. The dynamics of wheeled mobile robot is considered to develop the controller. The proposed controller has the following features: i) The proposed controller has good robustness performance; ii) It is easy to improve tracking performance by setting only one design parameters.


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