Abstract
This paper considers the problem of steering a nonholonomic unicycle despite model perturbation that scales both the forward speed and the turning rate by an unknown but bounded constant. We model the unicycle as an ensemble control system, show that this system is ensemble controllable, and derive an approximate steering algorithm that brings the unicycle to within an arbitrarily small neighborhood of any given Cartesian position. We apply our work to a differential-drive robot with unknown but bounded wheel radius and validate our approach with hardware experiments.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 6157635 |
| Pages (from-to) | 580-591 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Robotics |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Ensemble control theory
- model perturbation
- nonholonomic motion planning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Becker, A., & Bretl, T. (2012). Approximate steering of a unicycle under bounded model perturbation using ensemble control. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(3), 580-591. [6157635]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2011.2182117