Anti‐sideslip path tracking of wheeled mobile robots based on fuzzy model predictive control. Issue 10 (1st May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bai, Guoxing; Meng, Yu; Liu, Li; Luo, Weidong; Gu, Qing; Li, Kailun
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 56:Issue 10(2020)
• Page Start: 490
• Page End: 493
• Publication Date: 2020-05-01
• Subjects: fuzzy control -- tracking -- control system synthesis -- path planning -- position control -- mobile robots -- predictive control -- robust control; anti‐sideslip path tracking -- wheeled mobile robot -- fuzzy model predictive control -- high longitudinal velocities -- high possibility -- longitudinal velocity -- real‐time performance -- positioning errors -- fuzzy control -- robust control -- fuzzy model predictive controller; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.4019
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : When a wheeled mobile robot is travelling at high longitudinal velocities and turning, it may sideslip. Except for a few researchers, this issue has not received much attention. However, there is a high possibility that sideslip may cause danger, so the authors think this problem needs to be solved urgently. The mechanism of preventing sideslip is simple, which is to reduce the longitudinal velocity of the robot when turning. But, how to slow down is a question worth studying. To this end, they have proposed two schemes, but these two schemes have poor real‐time performance and poor robustness to positioning errors, respectively. In order to solve the above problems, considering that the real‐time and robustness of fuzzy control are very good, they propose a controller by combining robust control and model predictive control in this Letter. The fuzzy control is used to adjust the longitudinal velocity according to the state of the robot, and the model predictive control is used to achieve path tracking. According to the simulation results, the proposed fuzzy model predictive controller does have small errors, small sideslip, good real‐time performance, and good robustness to positioning errors.