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Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Formations: Backstepping Kinematics into Dynamics
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2007
  • Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Travis Alan Dierks
Abstract

In this paper, we seek to expand framework developed to control a single nonholonomic mobile robot to include the control of formations of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots. A combined kinematic/torque control law is developed for leader-follower based formation control using backstepping in order to accommodate the dynamics of the robots and the formation in contrast with kinematic-based formation controllers. The asymptotic stability of the entire formation is guaranteed using Lyapunov theory, and numerical results are provided The kinematic controller is developed around control strategies for single mobile robots and the idea of virtual leaders. The virtual leader is replaced with a physical mobile robot leader and the assumption of constant reference velocities is removed An auxiliary velocity control is developed allowing the asymptotic stability of the followers to be proved without the use of Barbalat's Lemma which simplifies proving the entire formation is asymptotically stable. A novel approach is taken in the development of the dynamical controller such that the torque control inputs for the follower robots include the dynamics of the follower robot as well as the dynamics of its leader, and the case when all robot dynamics are known is considered.

Meeting Name
IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2007
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Second Department
Computer Science
Sponsor(s)
United States. Department of Education
University of Missouri--Rolla. Intelligent Systems Center
Keywords and Phrases
  • Lyapunov methods,
  • formation control,
  • kinematic/dynamic controller
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2007 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Publication Date
01 Jan 2007
Citation Information
Jagannathan Sarangapani and Travis Alan Dierks. "Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Formations: Backstepping Kinematics into Dynamics" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2007 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jagannathan-sarangapani/54/