Dynamic Modelling and Adaptive Traction Control for Mobile Robots

Mobile robots have received a great deal of research in recent years. A significant amount of research has been published in many aspects related to mobile robots. Most of the research is devoted to design and develop some control techniques for robot motion and path planning. A large number of researchers have used kinematic models to develop motion control strategy for mobile robots. Their argument and assumption that these models are valid if the robot has low speed, low acceleration and light load. However, dynamic modelling of mobile robots is very important as they are designed to travel at higher speed and perform heavy duty work. This paper presents and discusses a new approach to develop a dynamic model and control strategy for wheeled mobile robot which I modelled as a rigid body that roles on two wheels and a castor. The motion control strategy consists of two levels. The first level is dealing with the dynamic of the system and denoted as Low level controller. The second level is developed to take care of path planning and trajectory generation

Kinematic control design for wheeled mobile robots with longitudinal and lateral slip

The motion control of wheeled mobile robots at high speeds under adverse ground conditions is a difficult task, since the robots' wheels may be subject to different kinds of slip. This work introduces an adaptive kinematic controller that is capable of solving the trajectory tracking problem of a nonholonomic mobile robot under longitudinal and lateral slip. While the controller can effectively compensate for the longitudinal slip, the lateral slip is a more involved problem to deal with, since nonholonomic robots cannot directly produce movement in the lateral direction. To show that the proposed controller is still able to make the mobile robot follow a reference trajectory under lateral and longitudinal time-varying slip, the solutions of the robot's position and orientation error dynamics are shown to be uniformly ultimately bounded. Numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the robot's performance using the proposed adaptive control law

Intelligent Adaptive Motion Control for Ground Wheeled Vehicles

In this paper a new intelligent adaptive control is applied to solve a problem of motion control of ground vehicles with two independent wheels actuated by a differential drive. The major objective of this work is to obtain a motion control system by using a new fuzzy inference mechanism where the Lyapunov’s stability can be assured. In particular the parameters of the kinematical control law are obtained using an intelligent Fuzzy mechanism, where the properties of the Fuzzy maps have been established to have the stability above. Due to the nonlinear map of the intelligent fuzzy inference mechanism (i.e. fuzzy rules and value of the rule), the parameters above are not constant, but, time after time, based on empirical fuzzy rules, they are updated in function of the values of the tracking errors. Since the fuzzy maps are adjusted based on the control performances, the parameters updating assures a robustness and fast convergence of the tracking errors. Also, since the vehicle dynamics and kinematics can be completely unknown, a dynamical and kinematical adaptive control is added. The proposed fuzzy controller has been implemented for a real nonholonomic electrical vehicle. Therefore system robustness and stability performance are verified through simulations and experimental studies

타이어 모델을 사용한 자율 드리프트 주행 제어 설계 및 분석

학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 기계항공공학부, 2019. 2. 이동준.본 논문에서는 Wheeled Mobile Robot(WMR)의자율드리프트 드라이빙 컨트롤러를 디자인 하고 분석하며, 이를 상용 프로그램인 CarSim을 사용한 시뮬레이션을 통하여 알고리즘을 검증 한다. 첫째로, WMR의 다이나믹스와 타이어 모델을 정의 하고, 이러한 모델로 인한 제약 사항에 대하여 논의한다. 다음으로, 사람의 관점에서 드리프트 드라이빙을 분석하고, 드리프트 드라이빙 제어기의 제어 목적을 정의한다. (차량의 방향과 요 각속도를 제어한다.) 드리프트 드라이빙 제어기는 고-레벨 제어, 목표 값을 찾기 위한 최적화 그리고 고-게인 제어로 구성된다. 다음으로, 제어하지 않는 속도에 대한 분석을 진행하였다. 마지막으로 제안한 알고리즘을 CarSim 시뮬 레이터를 이용하여 검증하였다. 정상 상태의 드리프트 시뮬레이션 결과와, 헤어핀 경로에 대한 드리프트 시뮬레이션 결과를 제시 한다.Control design and analysis of Wheeled Mobile Robot(WMR) autonomous drift-driving and the simulation experiment using the CarSim simulator are presented and the analysis of the controller proceeds. We first introduce WMR dynamics, tire model and problem formulation of the WMR. We then design drift-driving control using human strategy (control side slip angle and yaw rate). The drift-driving control consists of high-level control, optimization to find desired control input and high-gain control. We analyze the uncontrolled velocity dynamics and stability of the controller. The CarSim simulation results of drift-driving on steady-state equilibriums and the hairpin path with the desired yaw rate are provided.List of Figures - v List of Tables - vi Abbreviations - vii 1 Introduction - 1 1.1 Motivation and related works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Contribution of this work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 System Modeling - 5 2.1 Model dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Tire model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Problemformulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Drift-Driving Control Design - 10 3.1 High-level control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2 Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3 High-gain control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 Analysis of Control - 17 4.1 Internal dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.2 Stability analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5 Simulation Results - 25 5.1 Simulation setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 Steady-state drift-driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5.3 Hairpin turn drift-driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6 Conclusion and Future Work - 40 6.1 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6.2 Future work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Maste

Trajectory Tracking Control of Skid-Steering Mobile Robots with Slip and Skid Compensation using Sliding-Mode Control and Deep Learning

Slip and skid compensation is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in outdoor environments and uneven terrains. In addition to the general slipping and skidding hazards for mobile robots in outdoor environments, slip and skid cause uncertainty for the trajectory tracking system and put the validity of stability analysis at risk. Despite research in this field, having a real-world feasible online slip and skid compensation is still challenging due to the complexity of wheel-terrain interaction in outdoor environments. This paper presents a novel trajectory tracking technique with real-world feasible online slip and skid compensation at the vehicle-level for skid-steering mobile robots in outdoor environments. The sliding mode control technique is utilized to design a robust trajectory tracking system to be able to consider the parameter uncertainty of this type of robot. Two previously developed deep learning models [1], [2] are integrated into the control feedback loop to estimate the robot's slipping and undesired skidding and feed the compensator in a real-time manner. The main advantages of the proposed technique are (1) considering two slip-related parameters rather than the conventional three slip parameters at the wheel-level, and (2) having an online real-world feasible slip and skid compensator to be able to reduce the tracking errors in unforeseen environments. The experimental results show that the proposed controller with the slip and skid compensator improves the performance of the trajectory tracking system by more than 27%

Modeling and Design of Longitudinal and Lateral Control System with a FeedForward Controller for a 4 Wheeled Robot

The work show in this paper progresses through a sequence of physics-based increasing fidelity models that are used to design the robot controllers that respect the limits of the robot capabilities, develop a reference simple controller applicable to a large subset of tracking conditions, which include mostly non-invasive or highly dynamic movements and define path geometry following the control problem and develop both a simple geometric control and a dynamic model predictive control approach. In this paper, we propose for a nonlinear model with disturbance effect, the mathematical modeling of the longitudinal and lateral movements using PID with a feed-forward controller. This study proposes a feedforward controller to eliminate the disturbance effect

Trajectory tracking and traction coordinating controller design for lunar rover based on dynamics and kinematics analysis

Trajectory tracking control is a necessary part for autonomous navigation of planetary rover and traction coordinating control can reduce the forces consumption during navigation. As a result, a trajectory tracking and traction coordinating controller for wheeled lunar rover with Rocker Bogie is proposed in the paper. Firstly, the longitudinal dynamics model and the kinematics model of six-wheeled rover are established. Secondly, the traction coordinating control algorithm is studied based on sliding mode theory with improved exponential approach law. Thirdly, based on kinematics analysis and traction system identification, the trajectory tracking controller is designed using optimal theory. Then, co-simulations between ADAMS and MATLAB/Simulink are carried out to validate the proposed algorithm, and the simulation results have confirmed the effectiveness of path tracking and traction mobility improving