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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.10.3873

Tracking Control of 3-Wheels Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Using Fuzzy Azimuth Estimator  

Kim, Sang-Dae (Department of Electrical and Robotic Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim, Seung-Woo (Department of Electrical and Robotic Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.10, 2010 , pp. 3873-3879 More about this Journal
Abstract
Home service robot are not working in the fixed task such as industrial robot, because they are together with human in the same indoor space, but have to do in much more flexible and various environments. Most of them are developed on the base of the wheel-base mobile robot in the same method as a vehicle robot for factory automation. In these days, for holonomic system characteristics, omni-directional wheels are used in the mobile robot. A holonomicrobot, using omni-directional wheels, is capable of driving in any direction. But trajectory control for omni-directional mobile robot is not easy. Especially, azimuth control which sensor uncertainty problem is included is much more difficult. This paper develops trajectory controller of 3-wheels omni-directional mobile robot using fuzzy azimuth estimator. A trajectory controller for an omni-directional mobile robot, which each motor is controlled by an individual PID law to follow the speed command from inverse kinematics, needs a precise sensing data of its azimuth and exact estimation of reference azimuth value. It has imprecision and uncertainty inherent to perception sensors for azimuth. In this paper, they are solved by using fuzzy logic inference which can be used straightforward to perform the control of the mobile robot by means of the fuzzy behavior-based scheme already existent in literature. Finally, the good performance of the developed mobile robot is confirmed through live tests of path control task.
Keywords
Omni-Directional Mobile Robot; Holonomic System; Azimuth; Fuzzy Inference; Gyro-Sensor;
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