학술논문

Cooperative Motion Control and Sensing Architecture in Compliant Framed Modular Mobile Robots
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Robotics IEEE Trans. Robot. Robotics, IEEE Transactions on. 23(5):1095-1101 Oct, 2007
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Motion control
Mobile robots
Control systems
Robot sensing systems
Robot kinematics
Robust control
Nonlinear dynamical systems
Sensor fusion
Motion estimation
System performance
Cooperative systems
distributed control
motion control
robot sensing systems
tracking
Language
ISSN
1552-3098
1941-0468
Abstract
A novel motion control and sensing architecture for a two-axle Compliant Framed wheeled Modular Mobile Robot (CFMMR) is proposed in this paper. The CFMMR is essentially a cooperative mobile robotic system with complex physical constraints and highly nonlinear interaction forces. The architecture combines a kinematic controller for coordinating motion and providing reference commands, robust dynamic controllers for following these commands and rejecting disturbances, and a sensor fusion system designed to provide accurate relative posture estimates. Requirements for each of these subsystems and their respective interconnections are defined in this paper in order to optimize system performance. Experimental results compare performance of the proposed architecture to suboptimal configurations. Results derived from seven groups of experiments based upon 35 individual tests validate superiority of the architecture.