• DocumentCode
    2106607
  • Title

    Stable switching contour-following controller for wheeled mobile robots

  • Author

    Toibero, Juan Marcos ; Carelli, Ricardo ; Kuchen, Benjamin

  • Author_Institution
    Instituto de Autom., Universidad Nacional de San Juan
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    15-19 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    3724
  • Lastpage
    3729
  • Abstract
    In this paper a switching controller for mobile robots is presented that allows the contour-following of objects the size of which is at least comparable to that of the robot. The controller uses the information from distance sensors and is based on a wall-following controller described in the paper. The stability of the overall switching system is proved by using a common Lyapunov function. Experimental results in a Pioneer III unicycle-like mobile robot are provided to show the feasibility of the proposed control strategy
  • Keywords
    Lyapunov methods; mobile robots; path planning; stability; time-varying systems; Lyapunov function; Pioneer III unicycle; distance sensors; stability; switching contour-following control; wall-following control; wheeled mobile robots; Automatic control; Communication switching; Communication system control; Control systems; Mobile robots; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Size control; Stability analysis; Switching systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • ISSN
    1050-4729
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9505-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642271
  • Filename
    1642271