Robust formation control without velocity measurement of the leader robot |
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Authors: | J Ghommam H Mehrjerdi M Saad |
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Affiliation: | 1. Control & Energy Management, The National School of Engineering at Sfax, Tunisia;2. Département de génie électrique École de technologie supérieure 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest Montréal, Québec, Canada |
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Abstract: | In this paper a control problem of leader–follower motion coordination of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots is addressed and subsequently in the proposed scheme, a reference trajectory generated based on the information from the leader is tracked by the follower robots. To alleviate demanded information on the leader, specifically to eliminate the measurement requirement or estimation of the leader's velocity and dynamics, a virtual vehicle is constructed whereby its trajectory converges to the reference trajectory of the follower. Trajectory tracking controller is then designed to allow the follower robot to track the virtual vehicle using neural network approximation, in combination with the backstepping and Lyapunov direct design technique and finally the performance and effectiveness of the controller is verified throughout the experiments. |
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Keywords: | Leader–follower Nonholonomic mobile robot Formation control Virtual vehicle Neural network Backstepping technique |
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