State estimation of non-holonomic mobile robots using nonlinear observers

Author(s):  
M. Ishikawa ◽  
M. Sampei
Author(s):  
Andrea Usai ◽  
Paolo Di Giamberardino

In this chapter, we describe a homography approach to vision based feedback for nonholonomic mobile robots control. Differently than other approaches based on homography or fundamental matrix, our method has been developed to be robust to reference features loss, during the robot movement. This allows us to implement an arbitrary control law without the need of a teach-by-showing stage. In the chapter, the use of a stereo camera system to improve the observer accuracy and to perform an auto-calibration of the stereo-head pose is investigated. Experimental results are provided to show the performances of the proposed system state estimation, using an eye-in-hand mobile robotic platform.


Author(s):  
Pubudu N. Pathirana ◽  
Adrian N. Bishop ◽  
Andrey V. Savkin ◽  
Samitha W. Ekanayake ◽  
Nicholas J. Bauer

2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 5004-5011
Author(s):  
Yuta Sato ◽  
Yuichi Kobayashi ◽  
Manabu Gouko

This paper deals with a framework of decentralized approach to division of labor by multiple mobile robots. An iterative-transportation task by multiple robots with multiple sets of starts (pick-up place of the object) and goals (put down place) is considered as the task. On each route between a start and a goal, the efficiency of transportation improves when the number of robots increases. Due to jams, however, excessive number of robots on the same route causes inefficiency. We propose a control law of each robot to choose an appropriate route so as to optimize the total efficiency of the transportation, where each robot utilizes information which can be obtained only by local observation (without any explicit communication among robots). The proposed control is based on the estimation of the number of robots on the routes in the future by using EXPAR model. In simulation, it was verified that the proposed control law realized the similar level of the efficiency by appropriately choosing the route, compared with the case where global information can be utilized.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 613-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Carrasco ◽  
Aldo Cipriano ◽  
Ricardo Carelli

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