The movement of a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) is provided by motors, however, it is hard to control and predict the motors speed. A cascade Proportional, Integration, and Derivation (PID) controller is presented in this study to achieve the purpose of motors speed controlling. In order to test the controller, a differential drive wheeled mobile robot (DWMR) platform is used. The platform is inte...

In this paper, nonlinear dynamic equations of a wheeled mobile robot are described in the state-space form where the parameters are part of the state (angular velocities of the wheels). This representation, known as quasi-linear parameter varying, is useful for control designs based on nonlinearH∞ approaches. Two nonlinearH∞ controllers that guarantee induced L2-norm, between input (disturbance...

The research on two-wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) mobile robots or commonly known as balancing robots have gained momentum over the last decade in a number of robotic laboratories around the world. This paper describes the hardware design of such a robot. The objective of the design is to develop a TWIP mobile robot as well as MATLAB interfacing configuration to be used as flexible platform ...

This paper presents methodologies for kinematic/dynamic modeling and trajectory tracking for a four wheeled nonholonomic mobile robot. The vehicle with two front (steering) and two rear (driving) wheels is considered. The complete dynamic model of such a wheeled mobile robot is established using the Euler’s Lagrange equation and MATHEMATICA. Then a dynamical extension that makes possible the in...

In this paper, the simple geometric kinematics of a three-wheeled holonomic mobile robot is proposed. Wheel architecture is developed for the holonomic mobile platform in order to provide omni-directional motions by three individually driven and steered wheels. Three types of basic motions are proposed for the path generation of the developed mobile robot. All paths of the mobile robot can be a...

Solution to the safe and collision-free trajectory of the wheeled mobile robot in cluttered environments containing the static and/or dynamic obstacle has become a very popular and challenging research topic in the last decade. Notwithstanding of the amount of publications dealing with the different aspects of this field, the ongoing efforts to address the more effective and creative methods is...

In this paper we describe the application of a Simple ACO (S-ACO) as a method of optimization for membership functions’ parameters of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) in order to find the optimal intelligent controller for an Autonomous Wheeled Mobile Robot. Simulation results show that ACO outperforms a GA in the optimization of FLCs for an autonomous mobile robot.

Abstract—This paper presents a tracking control strategy based on Lyapunov approach for nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot. This control strategy consists of two levels. First, a kinematic controller is developed to adjust the right and left wheel velocities. Using this velocity control law, the stability of the tracking error is guaranteed using Lyapunov approach. This kinematic controller cann...

Kinematics and the dynamics analysis of a two-wheeled mobile robot comprising an oscillating intermediate central body are established in the paper. The dynamics of this mechanical system is formulated using the fundamental principle of virtual work, but it has been verified the results in the framework of the Lagrange formalism with their multipliers. The study of the dynamics problems of the ...

One of the challenging tasks concerning two wheeled inverted pendulum (TWIP) mobile robot is balancing its tilt to upright position, this is due to its inherently open loop instability. This paper presents an experimental comparison between model based controller and non-model based controllers in balancing the TWIP mobile robot. A Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) which is a non-model based control...