Abstract (EN):
This paper addresses the problem of regulating the dynamic model of a nonholonomic wheeled robot of the unicycle type to a point with a desired orientation. A simple controller is derived that yields global convergence of the trajectories of the closed loop system in the presence of parametric modeling uncertainty. Controller design relies on a non smooth coordinate transformation in the original state space, followed by the derivation of a Lyapunov-based, adaptive, smooth control law in the new coordinates. Convergence to the origin is analyzed and simulation results axe presented.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
Contact:
antonio.aguiar@isr.ist.utl.pt; antonio@isr.ist.utl.pt; atassiah@seidel.ece.ucsb.edu
No. of pages:
6