A finite-time fuzzy adaptive output-feedback fault-tolerant control for underactuated wheeled mobile robots systems

This paper investigates the adaptive fuzzy finite-time output-feedback fault-tolerant control (FTC) problemfor a class of nonlinear underactuated wheeled mobile robots (UWMRs) system with intermittent actuatorfaults. The UWMR system includes unknown nonlinear dynamics and immeasurable states. Fuzzy logic systems(FLSs) are utilized to work out immeasurable functions. Furthermore, with the support of the backsteppingcontrol technique and adaptive fuzzy state observer, a fuzzy adaptive finite-time output-feedback FTC scheme isdeveloped under the intermittent actuator faults. It is testifying the scheme can ensure the controlled nonlinearUWMRs is stable and the estimation errors are convergent. Finally, the comparison results and simulationvalidate the effectiveness of the proposed fuzzy adaptive finite-time FTC approach.

Novel ARC-Fuzzy Coordinated Automatic Tracking Control of Four-Wheeled Mobile Robot

Four-wheeled,individual-driven,nonholonomic structured mobile robots are widely used in industries for automated work,inspection and explora-tion purposes.The trajectory tracking control of the four-wheel individual-driven mobile robot is one of the most blooming research topics due to its nonholonomic structure.The wheel velocities are separately adjusted to follow the trajectory in the old-fashioned kinematic control of skid-steered mobile robots.However,there is no consideration for robot dynamics when using a kinematic controller that solely addresses the robot chassis’s motion.As a result,the mobile robot has lim-ited performance,such as chattering during curved movement.In this research work,a three-tiered adaptive robust control with fuzzy parameter estimation,including dynamic modeling,direct torque control and wheel slip control is pro-posed.Fuzzy logic-based parameter estimation is a valuable tool for adjusting adaptive robust controller(ARC)parameters and tracking the trajectories with less tracking error as well as high tracking accuracy.This research considers the O type and 8 type trajectories for performance analysis of the proposed novel control technique.Our suggested approach outperforms the existing control methods such as Fuzzy,proportional–integral–derivative(PID)and adaptive robust controller with discrete projection(ARC–DP).The experimental results show that the scheduled performance index decreases by 2.77%and 4.76%.All the experimen-tal simulations obviously proved that the proposed ARC-Fuzzy performed well in smooth groud surfaces compared to other approaches.

Design of intelligent controller for mobile robot based on fuzzy logic

In order to improve a mobile robot＇s autonomy in unknown environments, a novel intelligent controller is designed. The proposed controller is based on fuzzy logic with the aim of assisting a multi-sensor equipped mobile robot to safely navigate in an indoor environment. First, the designs of two behaviors for a robot＇s autonomous navigation are described, including path tracking and obstacle avoidance, which emulate human driving behaviors and reduce the complexity of the robot＇s navigation problems in unknown environments. Secondly, the two behaviors are combined by using a finite state machine （FSM）, which ensures that the robot can safely track a predefined path in an unknown indoor environment. The inputs to this controller are the readings from the sensors. The corresponding output is the desired direction of the robot. Finally, both the simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

A Practical Study of Intelligent Image-Based Mobile Robot for Tracking Colored Objects

Object tracking is one of the major tasks for mobile robots in many real-world applications.Also,artificial intelligence and automatic control techniques play an important role in enhancing the performance of mobile robot navigation.In contrast to previous simulation studies,this paper presents a new intelligent mobile robot for accomplishing multi-tasks by tracking red-green-blue(RGB)colored objects in a real experimental field.Moreover,a practical smart controller is developed based on adaptive fuzzy logic and custom proportional-integral-derivative(PID)schemes to achieve accurate tracking results,considering robot command delay and tolerance errors.The design of developed controllers implies some motion rules to mimic the knowledge of experienced operators.Twelve scenarios of three colored object combinations have been successfully tested and evaluated by using the developed controlled image-based robot tracker.Classical PID control failed to handle some tracking scenarios in this study.The proposed adaptive fuzzy PID control achieved the best accurate results with the minimum average final error of 13.8 cm to reach the colored targets,while our designed custom PID control is efficient in saving both average time and traveling distance of 6.6 s and 14.3 cm,respectively.These promising results demonstrate the feasibility of applying our developed image-based robotic system in a colored object-tracking environment to reduce human workloads.

Kinematics/Fuzzy Logic Combined Controller for Formation Control of Mobile Robots

A kinematics and fuzzy logic combined formation controller was proposed for leader-follower based formation control using backstepping method in order to accommodate the dynamics of the robot.The kinematics controller generates desired linear and angular velocities for follower robots,which make the configuration of follower robots coverage to the desired.The fuzzy logic controller takes dynamics of the leader and followers into consideration,which is built upon Mamdani fuzzy model.The force and torque acting on robots are described as linguistic variables and also 25 if-then rules are designed.In addition,the fuzzy logic controller adopts the Centroid of Area method as defuzzification strategy and makes robots’actual velocities converge to the expected which is generated by the kinematics controller.The innovation of the kinematics and fuzzy logic combined formation controller presented in the paper is that the perfect velocity tracking assumption is removed and realtime performance of the system is improved.Compared with traditional torque-computed controller,the velocity error convergence time in case of the proposed method is shorter than traditional torque-computed controller.The simulation results validate that the proposed controller can drive robot members to form the desired formation and formation tracking errors which can coverage to a neighborhood of the origin.Additionally,the simulations also show that the proposed method has better velocity convergence performance than traditional torque-computed method.

Fuzzy Logic Control of a Robotic Manipulator for Obstacles Avoidance

This work presents a Fuzzy Logic Controller （FLC） assigned to control a robotic arm motion while avoiding the obstacles that may face the robotic arm in its movement from the initial point to the final point in an optimized manner, in addition to avoid the singularity phenomenon, and without any exceeding of the physical constraints of the robot arm. A real platform （5 DOF ＂Degree Of Freedom＂ Lab Volt 5150 Robotic Arm） is used to carry this work practically, in addition to providing it by a vision sensor, where a new approach is proposed to inspect the robot work environment using a designed integrated MATLAB program having the ability to recognize the changeable locations of each of the robotic arm＇s end-effector, the goal, and the multi existed obstacles through a recorded film taken by a webcam, then these information will be treated using the FLC where its outputs represent the values that must be delivered to the robot to adopt them in its next steps till reaching to the goal in collision-free movements. The experimental results showed that the developed robotic ann travels successfully from Start to Goal where a high percentage of accuracy in arriving to Goal was achieved, and without colliding with any obstacle ensuring the harmonization between the theoretical part and the experimental part in achieving the best results of controlling the robotic arm＇s motion.

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Control of Mobile Robots

Navigation of autonomous mobile robots in dynamic and unknown environments needs to take into account different kinds of uncertainties. Type-1 fuzzy logic research has been largely used in the control of mobile robots. However, type-1 fuzzy control presents limitations in handling those uncertainties as it uses precise fuzzy sets. Indeed type-1 fuzzy sets cannot deal with linguistic and numerical uncertainties associated with either the mechanical aspect of robots, or with dynamic changing environment or with knowledge used in the phase of conception of a fuzzy system. Recently many researchers have applied type-2 fuzzy logic to improve performance. As control using type-2 fuzzy sets represents a new generation of fuzzy controllers in mobile robotic issue, it is interesting to present the performances that can offer type-2 fuzzy sets by regards to type-1 fuzzy sets. The paper presented deep and new comparisons between the two sides of fuzzy logic and demonstrated the great interest in controlling mobile robot using type-2 fuzzy logic. We deal with the design of new controllers for mobile robots using type-2 fuzzy logic in the navigation process in unknown and dynamic environments. The dynamicity of the environment is depicted by the presence of other dynamic robots. The performances of the proposed controllers are represented by both simulations and experimental results, and discussed over graphical paths and numerical analysis.

Formation Control and Obstacle Avoidance for Multiple Mobile Robots

这篇论文为一组 nonholonomic 考虑形成控制和障碍回避的问题活动机器人。根据非最优的模型预兆的控制，二个控制算法被建议。当解决费用在工作的最佳的控制问题被结合，两个算法被提出以便他们解决每个交往的机器人的动力学。潜在的功能被用来定义终端状态惩罚术语，和一个相应终端声明区域被加到优化限制。而且，包括稳定性和安全的主要问题也被讨论。模拟结果显示出建议控制策略的可行性。

Vision-based formation control of mobile robots

In this paper, a formation control algorithm and an obstade avoidance control algorithm for mobile robots are developed based on a relative motion sensory system such as a pan/tilt camera vision system, without the need for global sensing and between robots. This is achieved by employing the velocity variation, instead of actual velocities, as the control inputs. Simulation and experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed control methods.

Intelligent Control of Mobile Robot with Redundant Manipulator & Stereovision: Quantum / Soft Computing Toolkit

The task of an intelligent control system design applying soft and quantum computational intelligence technologies discussed.An example of a control object as a mobile robot with redundant robotic manipulator and stereovision introduced.Design of robust knowledge bases is performed using a developed computational intelligence-quantum/soft computing toolkit(QC/SCOptKBTM).The knowledge base self-organization process of fuzzy homogeneous regulators through the application of end-to-end IT of quantum computing described.The coordination control between the mobile robot and redundant manipulator with stereovision based on soft computing described.The general design methodology of a generalizing control unit based on the physical laws of quantum computing(quantum information-thermodynamic trade-off of control quality distribution and knowledge base self-organization goal)is considered.The modernization of the pattern recognition system based on stereo vision technology presented.The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated in comparison with the structures of control systems based on soft computing for unforeseen control situations with sensor system.The main objective of this article is to demonstrate the advantages of the approach based on quantum/soft computing.

Parameter Identification and Application of Slippage Kinematics for Tracked Mobile Robots

A new parameter identification method is proposed to solve the slippage problem when tracked mobile robots execute turning motions.Such motion is divided into two states in this paper:pivot turning and coupled turning between angular velocity and linear velocity.In the processing of pivot turning,the slippage parameters could be obtained by measuring the end point in a square path.In the process of coupled turning,the slippage parameters could be calculated by measuring the perimeter of a circular path and the linear distance between the start and end points.The identification results showed that slippage parameters were affected by velocity.Therefore,a fuzzy rule base was established with the basis on the identification data,and a fuzzy controller was applied to motion control and dead reckoning.This method effectively compensated for errors resulting in unequal tension between the left and right tracks,structural dimensions and slippage.The results demonstrated that the accuracy of robot positioning and control could be substantially improved on a rigid floor.

Lyapunov function-based obstacle avoidance scheme for a two-wheeled mobile robot

An obstacle avoidance scheme of a two-wheeled mobile robot is shown by selecting an appropriate Lya- punov function. When considering the obstacle, the Lyapunov function may have some local minima. A method which erases the local minima is proposed by using a function which covers the minima with a plane surface. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulations.

采用改进BP-PID控制的机器人避障仿真研究

针对移动机器人避障过程中行驶路径长、寻路速度慢等问题,提出了一种改进反向传播-比例-积分-微分(BP-PID)控制器,并对移动机器人避障效果进行仿真验证。利用移动机器人在二维坐标系的避障简图,得出了移动机器人运动方程式。引用比例-积分-微分(PID)控制器和3层BP神经网络结构,利用BP神经网络的学习能力调整PID控制器参数。引用粒子群算法进行改进,通过改进粒子群算法在线优化BP-PID控制器,确保移动机器人BP-PID控制器收敛于全局最优值,从而使移动机器人避障效果更好。在不同环境中,采用Matlab软件对移动机器人避障效果进行仿真,比较改进前和改进后的移动机器人避障效果。结果显示:在不同环境中,改进前和改进后的BP-PID控制器均能使移动机器人安全地躲避障碍物;但是采用改进的粒子群算法优化BP-PID控制器,可以使移动机器人运动路径更短,迭代次数更少,搜索时间更短。采用改进BP-PID控制器,能够提高移动机器人避障过程中寻路速度,缩短行驶路径,效果更好。

室内环境下改进的混合路径规划算法

为了解决室内非结构化复杂环境下的机器人在路径规划时常常出现目标点不可达、规划过程产生折角偏移、规划过程无法及时规避动态障碍物等问题,提出一种改进的混合室内路径规划算法。该算法将改进的全局路径规划与改进的局部路径规划算法相融合。首先,优化传统A-Star算法的启发因子,减少搜索范围和节点,再通过角平分线切点法对传统A-Star算法进行平滑处理。其次,综合路径与环境信息,采用改进的人工势场算法进行局部路径规划,通过修正斥力场参数来解决目标点不可达问题,同时构造了动态的势力场函数,使其具备决解决动态障碍物的能力。最后,对混合算法进行实际环境的路径规划实验,比起传统的混合算法文中提出的混合算法在路径规划长度上减少11.4%,运行时间减少11.1%,少经过34个冗余节点,结果表明该融合算法可以有效解决室内非结构化复杂的路径规划问题。

地面移动机器人路径避障控制策略研究

针对地面移动机器人在复杂工作环境的避障要求,分别设计了模糊控制器算法和模糊神经网络算法。首先在在地面移动机器人上的安装多传感器检测系统,在此基础上设计了自适应加权多传感器信息融合模型,将融合算法的结果作为避障控制算法的输入。分别在模糊神经网络算法和模糊控制器基础上,真实的模拟出地面移动机器人避障路径,结果表明模糊神经网络算法下的地面移动机器人避障运动路径更平滑,地面移动机器人路径与障碍物的距离更大。最后通过地面移动机器人实验平台上的避障实验,验证了模糊神经网络避障算法的优越性和可靠性。

基于改进机器学习的图书馆机器人自主避障控制研究

为控制图书馆机器人在行进过程中自动躲避障碍,达到理想工作效果,提出基于改进机器学习的图书馆机器人自主避障控制方法;采集图书馆机器人与目标障碍物距离信息,感知环境特征向量,当成卷积神经网络输入,经卷积、池化等操作,输出图书馆机器人对当前环境感知结果,该结果经输入输出变量模糊化、模糊推理以及输出变量解模糊等操作后,实现图书馆机器人自主避障无冲突运行;实验结果表明:该方法自主避障控制效果较好,避障行驶距离短,高速运行时反应更快,能够避开多个障碍物,识别分类结果与实际感知环境类型一致。

柔性多关节移动机器人非线性控制轨迹的二次模糊逼近

针对柔性多关节移动机器人在非线性控制轨迹下控制精准度不高的问题,提出一种非线性控制下的模糊逼近方法。建立机器人动力学模型,根据动力学特性设置矢量参数,对误差扰动动态修正。将矢量参数作为初始输入值,采用加权平均和乘积推理法,使得矢量符合自适应规律,通过模糊逼近函数对控制器的输出值实行状态逼近,直至符合初始设定值;凭借李亚普诺夫函数对控制输出值二次实施稳定模糊逼近,完成非线性轨迹控制。以B样条曲线轨迹为例做控制实验,实验数据证明:该二次逼近控制方法在非线性轨迹下的控制精准度较高,控制器输出力矩稳定,实用性能较强。

基于Fuzzy-PID的移动机器人运动控制

移动机器人涉及到许多研究方向,运动控制是其中的基础。通过对移动机器人运动学模型进行分析,以足球机器人系统为实验平台,论证了Fuzzy PID技术应用于移动机器人运动控制的可行性。将传统的PID控制与模糊控制相结合,通过PID控制实现控制的准确性,利用模糊控制提高控制的快速性。针对移动机器人运动控制中的实际问题,着重提出了基于误差分区的PID控制器和模糊控制器的设计方法。实验证明该方法不仅增强了控制器的调节能力,还在一定程度上简化了控制器的设计。

基于改进模糊PID果园双轮移动机器人运动控制

针对果园双轮机器人在果园路面移动时难平衡、易失稳的问题,提出了一种基于改进萤火虫算法优化的模糊比例-积分-微分(PID)控制策略。首先,根据机器人与果园不平整路面特点,建立其动力学状态空间模型;第二,阐述改进萤火虫算法原理并用其优化控制器模糊规则;第三,利用MatLab/Simulink软件对机器人运动控制进行仿真试验;最后,为检验所提出算法的可行性,建立对比试验。研究结果表明:改进萤火虫算法优化的模糊PID控制器实现了果园双轮移动机器人的稳定运动功能,到达稳定的时间与最大倾角较传统PID控制器分别减少了3.9s和20.4°。

基于神经网络的轮式移动机器人非线性模型预测控制研究

针对轮式移动机器人受到障碍物干扰导致运动轨迹跟踪误差较大问题,提出了神经网络非线性模型预测(NN-NMP)控制方法,并对轮式移动机器人避障效果进行仿真验证。建立了轮式移动机器人运动模型,并且定义了机器人运动方程式。设计非线性模型预测控制方法,引用神经网络算法,通过训练多层神经网络对非线性模型预测控制误差进行逼近,从而使轮式移动机器人控制系统具有更好的避障能力。设置3种不同环境,利用Matlab软件对轮式移动机器人避障结果进行仿真,对比和分析轮式移动机器人采用2种控制方法的输出结果。结果显示:在无障碍物环境中,采用传统比例-积分-微分(PID)控制方法和NN-NMP控制方法,轮式移动机器人均能较好地按照期望轨迹进行移动。在有障碍物环境中,采用传统PID控制方法,轮式移动机器人虽然能够躲避障碍物,但是跟踪误差较大。采用NN-NMP控制方法,轮式移动机器人不仅能够躲避障碍物,而且跟踪误差相对较小。采用NN-NMP控制方法,能够降低轮式移动机器人跟踪误差,具有较好的避障能力。