Based on dynamic modeling, robust trajectory tracking control of attitude and position of a spherical mobile robot is proposed. In this paper, the spherical robot is composed of a spherical shell and three independent rotors which act as the inner driver mechanism. Owing to rolling without slipping assumption, the robot is subjected to two nonholonomic constraints. The state space representatio...

this paper proposes a control strategy for a cable-suspended robot based on sliding mode approach (smc) which is faced to external disturbances and parametric uncertainties. this control algorithm is based on lyapunov technique which is able to provide the stability of the end-effecter during tracking a desired path with an acceptable precision. the main contribution of the paper is to calculat...

In this paper, a novel adaptive sliding mode control for rigid robot manipulators is proposed. In the proposed system, since there may exist explicit unknown parameters and perturbations, a Lyapunov based approach is presented to increase system robustness, even in presence of arbitrarily large (but not infinite) discontinuous perturbations. To control and track the robot, a continuous controll...

We study the problem of converting a trajectory tracking controller to a path tracking controller for a nonlinear non-minimum phase longitudinal aircraft model. The solution of the trajectory tracking problem is based on the requirement that the aircraft follows a given time parameterized trajectory in inertial frame. In this paper we introduce an alternative nonlinear control design approach c...

A nonlinear adaptive trajectory tracking design for autonomous mobile robot and its practical implementation are presented in this paper. This approach can be applied to generate trajectory tracking control commands for autonomous mobile robot tracking predefined trajectories. The design objective is to specify one nonlinear controller with a parameter adaptive law that satisfies the adaptive H...

Please cite this article in press as: Z. Hu et Vis. Comput. (2008), doi:10.1016/j.imavis Motion trajectory is one of the most important cues for tracking and behavior recognition and can be widely applied to numerous fields. However, it is a difficult problem to directly model the spatio-temporal variations of trajectories due to their high dimensionality and nonlinearity. In this paper, we pro...

This paper presents a novel learning feed-forward controller design approach for accurate robotics trajectory tracking. Based on the joint nonlinear dynamics characteristics, a model-free learning algorithm based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) is implemented for friction model identification. The experimental results verified that SVM based learning feed-forward controller is a good approach f...