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Experimental validation of integrated and robust control system for mobile robots

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The need to design a robust, accurate and lightweight real-time control architecture for a low-cost embedded system has become a necessary step in robotics applications. Therefore, the goal of this work is to design an integrated and accurate control system for a differential wheeled mobile robot. A hierarchical control approach has been adopted in this work which, takes into account the sub-systems controller of the problem related to robot path tracking. To this end, the control structure includes the design of a sliding mode control (SMC) scheme to stabilize the robot and precisely track the path that matches the kinematics of the mechanical structure. Moreover, the control structure provides a new design of the DC motor controller for optimum performance. To obtain an integrated control system for automated tasks, an accurate position estimation and an optimized high-level path planning algorithm have been proposed. The robustness and performance of the approved control and estimation systems have been verified through real-time implementations in different experiments. The results show the high accuracy of the robot’s tracking on different paths.

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This research has been conducted under the project GASTHAUS (83/308/2018) supported by the Hashemite University.

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Hayajneh, M. Experimental validation of integrated and robust control system for mobile robots. Int. J. Dynam. Control 9, 1491–1504 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-020-00751-7

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