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Sliding mode control for trajectory tracking of mobile robot in the RFID sensor space

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This paper presents a sliding mode control method for wheeled mobile robots. Because of the nonlinear and nonholonomic properties, it is difficult to establish an appropriate model of the mobile robot system for trajectory tracking. A robust control law which is called sliding mode control is proposed for asymptotically stabilizing the mobile robot to a desired trajectory. The posture of the mobile robot (including the position and heading direction) is presented and the kinematics equations are established in the two-dimensional coordinates. According to the kinematics equations, the controller is designed to find an acceptable control law so that the tracking error will approximate 0 as the time approaches infinity with an initial error. The RFID sensor space is used to estimate the real posture of the mobile robot. Simulation and experiment demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed system for robust tracking of mobile robots.

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, San 30, Jangjeon-dong Kumjung-ku, Busan, 609-735, Korea

    Jun Ho Lee, Cong Lin, Hoon Lim & Jang Myung Lee

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Recommended by Sooyong Lee under the direction of Editor Jae-Bok Song. This work was supported by the Korea Science and Engineering (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOST) (No. R01-2007-000-10171-0).

Jun Ho Lee received the M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pusan National University. His research interests include factory automation and sliding mode control.

Cong Lin received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jilin University and the M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Pusan National University. His research interests include neural network and sliding mode control.

Hoon Lim is currently a M.S student in Electrical Engineering of Pusan National University. His research interests include mobile manipulator and sliding mode control.

Jang Myung Lee received the B.S. and M.S degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Now, he is a Professor in Pusan National University. His research interests include integrated manufacturing systems and intelligent control.

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Lee, J.H., Lin, C., Lim, H. et al. Sliding mode control for trajectory tracking of mobile robot in the RFID sensor space. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 7, 429–435 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-009-0312-7

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