Mobile Robots Characterized by Kinematic and Dynamic Equations: Motion Planning, Trajectory Tracking, and Group Control

Abstract

The paper solves some control problems of mobile robots as both kinematics and dynamics are intertwined in the mathematical model. The problems of driving the vehicle to a desired configuration in a specified time and tracking a reference trajectory are considered. The control problems associated with motion in convoy and rigid formations of a group of vehicles are studied and some results are demonstrated by numerical examples.