A method for guidance and control of an autonomous vehicle in problems of border patrolling and obstacle avoidance

  • Authors:
  • Alexey S. Matveev;Hamid Teimoori;Andrey V. Savkin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg University, Universitetskii 28, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia;School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia;School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a sliding mode based method for a unicycle-like vehicle control and guidance. The proposed guidance-control law is applied to the problems of border patrolling and obstacle avoidance. A mathematically rigorous analysis of this law is provided.