Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain

The control of planetary rovers, which are high performance mobile robots that move on deformable rough terrain, is a challenging problem. Taking lateral skid into account, this paper presents a rough terrain model and nonholonomic kinematics model for planetary rovers. An approach is proposed in wh...

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Main Authors: Liang Ding, Hai-bo Gao, Zong-quan Deng, Zhijun Li, Ke-rui Xia, Guang-ren Duan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/793526
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Zhijun Li
Ke-rui Xia
Guang-ren Duan
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description The control of planetary rovers, which are high performance mobile robots that move on deformable rough terrain, is a challenging problem. Taking lateral skid into account, this paper presents a rough terrain model and nonholonomic kinematics model for planetary rovers. An approach is proposed in which the reference path is generated according to the planned path by combining look-ahead distance and path updating distance on the basis of the carrot following method. A path-following strategy for wheeled planetary exploration robots incorporating slip compensation is designed. Simulation results of a four-wheeled robot on deformable rough terrain verify that it can be controlled to follow a planned path with good precision, despite the fact that the wheels will obviously skid and slip.
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spelling doaj-art-eea2ff946da04a829c349757c345172e2025-02-03T01:26:16ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal2356-61401537-744X2014-01-01201410.1155/2014/793526793526Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough TerrainLiang Ding0Hai-bo Gao1Zong-quan Deng2Zhijun Li3Ke-rui Xia4Guang-ren Duan5State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, ChinaKey Lab of Autonomous System and Network Control, College of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, ChinaThe control of planetary rovers, which are high performance mobile robots that move on deformable rough terrain, is a challenging problem. Taking lateral skid into account, this paper presents a rough terrain model and nonholonomic kinematics model for planetary rovers. An approach is proposed in which the reference path is generated according to the planned path by combining look-ahead distance and path updating distance on the basis of the carrot following method. A path-following strategy for wheeled planetary exploration robots incorporating slip compensation is designed. Simulation results of a four-wheeled robot on deformable rough terrain verify that it can be controlled to follow a planned path with good precision, despite the fact that the wheels will obviously skid and slip.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/793526
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Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
The Scientific World Journal
title Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
title_full Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
title_fullStr Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
title_full_unstemmed Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
title_short Path-Following Control of Wheeled Planetary Exploration Robots Moving on Deformable Rough Terrain
title_sort path following control of wheeled planetary exploration robots moving on deformable rough terrain
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/793526
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