This article presents a method for determining smooth and time-optimal path constrained trajectories for robotic manipulators and investigates the performance of these trajectories both through simulations and experiments. The desired smoothness of the trajectory is imposed through limits on the torque rates. The third derivative of the path parameter with respect to time, the pseudo-jerk, is t...

Concept of closed loop control appears in many fields engineering sciences, where the output quantity some physical system must be forced to follow prescribed function over time, e.g., when a robotic arm endpoint track desired trajectory or path given as timed series spatial coordinates. The classic approach for solving this kind problem involves PID compensation block, and necessary input sign...

In this paper, a nonlinear model of the underactuated six degrees of freedom (6 DOF) quadrotor helicopter was derived based on the Newton-Euler formalism. A new nonlinear robust control strategy was proposed to solve the stabilizing and path following problems in presence of external disturbances and parametric uncertainties. The proposed control structure consist of a sliding mode control base...

We describe a method for visual based robot navigation with a single omni-directional (catadioptric) camera. We show how omni-directional images can be used to generate the representations needed for two main navigation modalities: Topological Navigation and Visual Path Following. Topological Navigation relies on the robot’s qualitative global position, estimated from a set of omni-directional ...

Many state-of-the-art approaches to trajectory optimization and optimal control are intimately related to standard Newton methods. For researchers that work in the intersections of machine learning, robotics, control, and optimization, such relations are highly relevant but sometimes hard to see across disciplines, due also to the different notations and conventions used in the disciplines. The...

The control of mobile robots is an intense research field, having produced a substantial volume of research literature in the past three decades. Mobile robots present a challenge in both theoretical control design as well as hardware implementation. From a theoretical point of view, mobile robots exert highly non-linear kinematics and dynamics, non-holonomy and complex operational environment....

Trajectory tracking is an important aspect of autonomous vehicles. The idea behind trajectory tracking is the ability of the vehicle to follow a predefined path with zero steady state error. The difficulty arises due to the nonlinearity of vehicle dynamics. Therefore, this paper proposes a stable tracking control for an autonomous vehicle. An approach that consists of steering wheel control and...