Brief On robustness and precision of mobile robots missions

  • Authors:
  • Tarek Hamel;Dominique Meizel

  • Affiliations:
  • Cemif, Université d'Evry, 40 rue du Pelvoux, CE 1455 Courcouronnes, France;UTC/Heudiasyc, UMR CNRS #6599, BP 20529, 60205 Compiegne, France

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper proposes solutions for the robust achievement of displacement missions by a wheeled mobile robot. The considered disturbances are generated by the use of inaccurate configuration estimates as feedback information. Those errors are characterized in a bounded error context. We introduce a trajectory tracking controller whose stability is analysed by a Lyapunov function the time derivative of which is negative definite inside a large domain around the zero error. This property makes it possible to define a bounded attractive domain around the nominal trajectory, quantifying thus the guaranteed precision of the mission. The method is extended to a parking non-stationary controller and illustrated by a real experiment.