Hybrid adaptive control laws solving a path following problem for non-holonomic mobile manipulators

In this paper a general solution to the path following problem for mobile manipulators with non-holonomic mobile platform has been presented. New proposed control algorithms — for mobile manipulators with fully known dynamics or with parametric uncertainty in the dynamics — take into considerations the kinematics as well as the dynamics of the non-holonomic mobile manipulator. The convergence of the control algorithms is proved using the LaSalle's invariance principle.