Robust Practical Point Stabilization of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Using Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Fierro;Frank L. Lewis

  • Affiliations:
  • Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. South, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-7115, U.S.A.;Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. South, Fort Worth, Texas 76118-7115, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A control structure that makes possible the integration of a kinematiccontroller and a neural network (NN) computed-torque controller fornonholonomic mobile robots is presented. A combined kinematic/torque controllaw is developed and stability is guaranteed by Lyapunov theory. Thiscontrol algorithm is applied to the practical point stabilization problemi.e., stabilization to a small neighborhood of the origin. The NN controllercan deal with unmodeled bounded disturbances and/or unstructured unmodeleddynamics in the vehicle. On-line NN weight tuning algorithms that do notrequire off-line learning yet guarantee small tracking errors and boundedcontrol signals are utilized.