Journal
SENSORS
Volume 18, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s18124316
Keywords
trajectory tracking; wheeled mobile robot; DC motor; DC/DC Buck power converter; hierarchical switched controller; hierarchical average controller; kinematic control; flat system; cascade switched control; sliding mode control; PI control
Funding
- Secretaria de Investigacion y Posgrado del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico [20180497]
- Comision de Operacion y Fomento de Actividades Academicas del Instituto Politecnico Nacional
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By using the hierarchical controller approach, a new solution for the control problem related to trajectory tracking in a differential drive wheeled mobile robot (DDWMR) is presented in this paper. For this aim, the dynamics of the three subsystems composing a DDWMR, i.e., the mechanical structure (differential drive type), the actuators (DC motors), and the power stage (DC/DC Buck power converters), are taken into account. The proposed hierarchical switched controller has three levels: the high level corresponds to a kinematic control for the mechanical structure; the medium level includes two controls based on differential flatness for the actuators; and the low level is linked to two cascade switched controls based on sliding modes and PI control for the power stage. The hierarchical switched controller was experimentally implemented on a DDWMR prototype via MATLAB-Simulink along with a DS1104 board. With the intention of assessing the performance of the switched controller, experimental results associated with a hierarchical average controller recently reported in literature are also presented here. The experimental results show the robustness of both controllers when parametric uncertainties are applied. However, the performance achieved with the switched controller introduced in the present paper is better than, or at least similar to, performance achieved with the average controller reported in literature.
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