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Modeling and control of an underactuated tractor–trailer wheeled mobile robot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2017

Asghar Khanpoor ,
Ali Keymasi Khalaji  and
S. Ali A. Moosavian
Asghar Khanpoor
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. E-mails: asghar.khanpoor@yahoo.com, moosavian@kntu.ac.ir
Ali Keymasi Khalaji*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
S. Ali A. Moosavian
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. E-mails: asghar.khanpoor@yahoo.com, moosavian@kntu.ac.ir
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: keymasi@khu.ac.ir
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Summary

Trajectory tracking is one of the main control problems in the context of Wheeled Mobile Robots (WMRs). Control of underactuated systems has been focused by many researchers during past few years. In this paper, tracking control of a Tractor–Trailer Wheeled Mobile Robot (TTWMR) has been discussed. TTWMR includes a differential drive WMR towing a passive spherical wheeled trailer. Spherical wheels in contrast with standard wheels make the robot highly underactuated with severe non-linearities. Underactuation is due to the use of spherical wheeled trailer to increase robots' maneuverability and degrees of freedom. In fact, standard wheels are subjected to non-holonomic constraints due to pure rolling and non-slip conditions, which reduce robot maneuverability. In this paper, after introducing the robot, kinematics and kinetics models are obtained. Then, based on a physical intuition, a novel control algorithm is developed for the robot, i.e. Lyapunov-PID control algorithm. Subsequently, singularity avoidance of the proposed algorithm is discussed and the stability of the algorithm is analyzed. Finally, simulation and experimental results are presented which reveal the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Keywords

Tractor–trailer wheeled mobile robotTrajectory trackingNon-holonomic systemUnderactuationLyapunov theorem
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Robotica , Volume 35 , Issue 12 , December 2017 , pp. 2297 - 2318
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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