An autonomous control system designed for a non-holonomic wheeled mobile robot that is programmed to emulate a fixed-wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) flying at constant altitude is experimentally validated. The overall system is capable of waypoint navigation, threat avoidance, real-time trajectory generation and trajectory tracking. Both the wheeled mobile robot experimental platform and the hi...

This paper proposed a model algorithm control (MAC) method for trajectory tracking control of the differentially steered wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) subject to nonholonomic constraint. The dynamic model of the wheeled mobile robot is presented and used as the model to be controlled. The performance of the proposed control algorithm is verified via computer simulations in which the WMR is contr...

This paper is devoted to design and implement a non-holonomic wheeled mobile robot that possesses dynamic object-tracking capability by using real-time image processing. Two motion control laws are proposed using Lyapunov’s direct method and computed-torque method. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the developed schemes. The overall experimental setup of the mobile robot develo...

of Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot Hyun-Sik Shim Jong-Hwan Kim Kwangill Koh Dept. of Elec. Eng. Dept. of Elec. Eng. KAIST KAIST LG Industrial Systems Co., Ltd. Taejoen-shi, 305-701, Korea Taejoen-shi, 305-701, Korea Kyongki-do, 430-080, Korea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract A variable structure controller(VSC) for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile...

We have recently shown that a neural network model of classical and operant conditioning can be trained to control the movements of a wheeled mobile robot. The neural network learns to avoid obstacles as the robot moves around without supervision in a cluttered environment. The neural network does not require any knowledge about the quality or configuration of the sensors. In this article we re...

This paper addresses trajectory tracking of an omni-directional mobile robot (OMR) with three mecanum wheels and a fully symmetrical configuration. The omni-directional wheeled robot outperforms the non-holonomic wheeled robot due to its ability to rotate and translate independently and simultaneously. A kinematics model of the OMR is established and a model predictive control (MPC) algorithm w...

This paper presents parameter identification and discrete-time adaptive slidingmode controller applied to control the mobile platform Pioneer 3-DX wheeled mobile robot (WMR) with 5-DOF manipulator. The dynamic model for mobile robot with two driving wheels, time–varying mass and moment of inertia have been used in sliding-mode control. Two closed-loop, on-line parameter estimators have been use...

This paper presents the triBoingus, a three wheeled mobile robot built to encourage robotics exploration. Built over the course of one semester, the first version of the triBoingus explores problems with three wheeled constrained motion control and planning. The construction of the triBoingus is described, and a design and three possible applications for the next-generation triBoingus, v2, are ...

Developed at UWE Bristol’s Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Laboratory for conducting experiments in collective mobile robotics, the LinuxBot is a proven and reliable wireless-networked wheeled mobile robot capable of supporting a wide range of sensors and actuators. The robot has a Linux-based software and communications architecture, which embeds TCP/IP networking tools including FTP, Tel...