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A low-complexity tracker design for uncertain nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots with time-varying input delay at nonlinear dynamic level

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A low-complexity design problem of tracking scheme for uncertain nonholonomic mobile robots is investigated in the presence of unknown time-varying input delay. It is assumed that nonlinearities and parameters of robots and their bounds are unknown. Based on a nonlinear error transformation, a tracking control scheme ensuring preassigned bounds of overshoot, convergence rate, and steady-state values of a tracking error is firstly presented in the absence of input delay, without using any adaptive and function approximation mechanism to estimate unknown nonlinearities and model parameters and computing repeated time derivatives of certain signals. Then, we develop a low-complexity tracking scheme to deal with unknown time-varying input delay of mobile robots where some auxiliary signals and design conditions are derived for the design and stability analysis of the proposed tracking scheme. The boundedness of all signals in the closed-loop system and the guarantee of tracking performance with preassigned bounds are established through Lyapunov stability analysis. The validity of the proposed theoretical result is shown by a simulation example.

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This research was supported by the Human Resources Development (No. 20154030200860) of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2016R1D1A1B03931312 and NRF-2016R1C1B1006936).

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    Sung Jin Yoo

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Park, B.S., Yoo, S.J. A low-complexity tracker design for uncertain nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots with time-varying input delay at nonlinear dynamic level. Nonlinear Dyn 89, 1705–1717 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-017-3545-7

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