Design hybrid iterative learning controller for directly driving the wheels of mobile platform against uncertain parameters and initial errors

In this paper, we develop a hybrid iterative learning controller (HILC) for a non-holonomic wheeled mobile platform to achieve trajectory tracking with actual complex constraints, such as physical constraints, uncertain parameters, and initial errors. Unlike the traditional iterative learning controller (ILC), the control variable selects the rotation speed of two driving wheels instead of the forward speed and the rotation speed. The hybrid controller considers the physical constraints of the robot’s motors and can effectively handle the uncertain parameters and initial errors of the system. Without the initial errors, the hybrid controller can improve the convergence speed for trajectory tracking by adding other types of error signals; otherwise, the hybrid controller achieves trajectory tracking by designing a signal compensation for the initial errors. Then, the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid controller is proven by the relationship between the input, output, and status signals. Finally, the simulations demonstrate that the proposed hybrid iterative learning controller effectively tracked various trajectories by directly controlling the two driving wheels under various constraints. Furthermore, the results show that the controller did not significantly depend on the system’s structural parameters.