A practical leader–follower hybrid control scheme for wheeled mobile robots

Xinyi He, Chang Liu and Xiaodi Li

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024, vol. 184, issue C

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of tracking control of wheeled mobile robots in leader–follower formation. By applying the backstepping technique, a hybrid control scheme consisting of continuous control and intermittent control is proposed, and leader–follower formation tracking is achieved in the presence of model uncertainty and external disturbance. A relationship between the intermittent control width and control gain and the convergence of the position errors is obtained for the tracking accuracy estimation. As a special case, the concerned intermittent control can be converted to impulsive control with a sufficiently small control width, and tracking of the trajectory can be realized by directly driving the state variables of the follower at well-designed discrete instants. The main novelty of the proposed hybrid control scheme is to drive the tracking errors into a preset region via intermittent control (or impulsive control) signals and then achieve the tracking goal in the practical sense via continuous control signals. An example with the corresponding numerical simulations and experimental tests is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: Wheeled mobile robot; Intermittent control; leader–follower tracking control; Impulsive control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2024.114954

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